General Knowledge - Honours and Awards - Discussion

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.

The Pulitzer Prize is a prestigious set of awards given annually for achievements in journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. Established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher, the prizes are administered by Columbia University in New York.

Here are some key points about the Pulitzer Prize:.

Categories: There are over 20 categories, including Public Service, Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, and Music.

Awards: Winners receive a certificate and a cash award of $15, 000, except for the Public Service category, which awards a gold medal.

Eligibility: Most categories are open to US Citizens, but some, like the History category, have no nationality restrictions.

History: The first prizes were awarded in 1917, and they have since become a benchmark for excellence in their respective fields.

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

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper and on-line journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American 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.

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.

This award is provided for an achievement of newspapers online journalism literature and musical composition for yearly in 21 categories they will issue us$10000 and a certificate.

This award is provided for an achievement of newspapers online journalism literature and musical composition for yearly in 21 categories they will issue us$10000 and a certificate.

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.

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.

Any one give me some explanation please about what is Pulitzer award and in which field it will give?