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pulitzer prize is being in the field of newspaper , journalism , litrature and musical comosition awarded by colombian university.started in 1917.and $10000 is the prize money.

Pulitzer award started in 1917

In the latter years of the 19th century, Joseph Pulitzer stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. Hungarian-born, an intense indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skillful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a fierce, hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession.

His innovative New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reshaped newspaper journalism. Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism. And certainly, the lasting influence of the Pulitzer Prizes on journalism, literature, music, and drama is to be attributed to his visionary

It is the biggest prize for journalist Joseph Pulitzer was established it.

It is biggest Literature award in the world.

It is the biggest awarded journalist joshep pulitzer was established in 1917.

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

What is meaning of pulitzer ?

Who winner pulitzer prize in India and first?

Gobind Behari Lal He came to study at the University of California in Berkeley in 1912 on the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Scholarship. He later became the science editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.

Jhumpa Lahiri: The 1967-born Indian American author won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book "Interpreters of Maladies in 2000. Her first novel "The Namesake" was adapted into a movie by Mira Nair. Lahiri, who is of Bengali descent, is currently a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities appointed by US President Barack Obama.

Geeta Anand: A journalist and writer of Indian origin, Anand writes for the Wall Street Journal and was earlier a political writer for the Boston Globe. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her work on Pompe Disease, a muscular condition, which was made into a movie, "Extraordinary Measures, and later a book, "The Cure.

Siddhartha Mukherjee: An M.D., Ph.D., Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and from Harvard Medical School, and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the New York Times and the New Republic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2011 for his book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.