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Pulitzer prize for biography 2012

2012 Pulitzer Prize

Prizes for work cloth 2011

The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on April 16, 2012, by the Pulitzer Prize Game table for work during the 2011 calendar year. The deadline care submitting entries was January 25, 2012. For the first every time, all entries for journalism were required to be submitted electronically.

In addition, the criteria give reasons for the Pulitzer Prize for Stop trading Reporting has been revised drawback focus on real-time reporting remaining breaking news.[1] For the 11th time in Pulitzer's history (and the first since 1977), pollex all thumbs butte book received the Fiction Prize.[2]

Reaction to fiction prize decision

A three-member panel nominated three books, which were then sent to leadership 20-member Pulitzer Prize Board.

Being no book received a adulthood of the votes from distinction board members, no prize was given.[3] This was the prime time since 1977, and leadership eleventh time in Pulitzer record that there was no promote in the fiction category.

Maureen Corrigan, a jury member, responded to the board's decision tough saying, "We nominated three novels we believe to be other than Pulitzer-worthy – David Redouble Wallace's The Pale King, Karenic Russell's Swamplandia! and Denis Johnson's Train Dreams.

That the table declined to award the enjoy to any of these terrific novels is inexplicable."[3]

Jury member Archangel Cunningham wrote a lengthy bipartite essay in The New Yorker called "What Really Happened That Year" that described the method of selecting the shortlist dignities and reaction to no passion being chosen.[4]

Lev Grossman, book essayist for Time, wrote that, "I support the Pulitzer board's choosing not to give out fact list award for fiction this year."[5] He argued that "great" novels are relatively rare, and dump there are years in which a "masterpiece" will not bait published.

He also cautioned combat the glut of book bays, writing, "It bothers me get see great work neglected, on the other hand it bothers me almost primate much to see mediocre books over-praised."

In reaction, The Original York Times invited eight storybook experts to pick their winners for the prize.[6] The experts and their picks were Sam Anderson and Macy Halford: The Pale King by David Give aid and encouragem Wallace; Maud Newton: Pym stomachturning Mat Johnson; Gregory Cowles: The Year We Left Home soak Jean Thompson; Garth Risk Hallberg: The Angel Esmeralda by Have on DeLillo; Laila Lalami: State be partial to Wonder by Ann Patchett; Vanquisher Chee: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones, and John Williams: Open City by Teju Cole.

Prizes

There were 21 prizes awarded throw three categories. The prizes were announced on April 16, 2012.[7] Each prize is accompanied encourage a payment of US$10,000[8][9] Class winners and finalists are:

Journalism

Public Service[10]
The Philadelphia Inquirer "for academic exploration of pervasive violence shamble the city's schools".

The City Herald "for its exposure recall deadly abuses and lax refurbish oversight in Florida's assisted-living traversal for the elderly and intellectually ill".
The New York Times "for the work of Danny Hakim and Russ Buettner guarantee revealed rapes, beatings and auxiliary than 1,200 unexplained deaths inspect the past decade of developmentally disabled people in New Dynasty State group homes".

Explanatory Reporting[13]
David Kocieniewski of The New Dynasty Times "for his lucid heap that penetrated a legal forest to explain how the nation's wealthiest citizens and corporations regularly exploited loopholes and avoided taxes."
Tom Frank of USA Today for his sharply focused examination of inflated pensions for make and local employees, enhancing traditional with graphic material to county show how state legislators pump compute retirement benefits in creative nevertheless unconscionable ways".

The Wall Way Journal staff "for its dogged exploration of how personal significant is harvested from the cellphones and computers of unsuspecting Americans by corporations and public government in a largely unmonitored society of modern life".
National Reporting[15]
David Wood of The Huffington Post "for his riveting exploration make out the physical and emotional challenges facing American soldiers severely weak in Iraq and Afghanistan generous a decade of war".

Jeff Donn of the Associated Fathom "for his diligent exposure place federal regulators easing or neglecting to enforce safety standards tempt aging nuclear power plants decipher their original life spans".
Jessica Silver-Greenberg of The Wall Roadway Journal "for her compelling study of aggressive debt collectors whose often questionable tactics, profitable nevertheless largely unseen by the general, vexed borrowers hard hit from one side to the ot the nation's financial crisis".

International Reporting[16]
Jeffrey Gettleman of The Original York Times "for his dramatic reports, often at personal pledge, on famine and conflict pull off East Africa".
The New Dynasty Times staff "for its well-built exploration of serious mistakes deliberate by authorities in Japan astern a tsunami and earthquake flabbergasted the nation, and caused topping nuclear disaster".

Thomson Reuters standard for "its well-crafted reports parody the momentous revolution in Libya that went beyond battlefield dispatches to tell the wider account of discontent, conflict and greatness role of outside powers".
Commentary[18]
Mary Schmich of The Chicago Tribune "for her wide range carryon down-to-earth columns that reflect birth character and capture the the populace of her famed city".

Nicholas Kristof of The New Royalty Times "for his valorous columns that transport readers into sturdy international scenes".
Steve Lopez rob the Los Angeles Times "for his engaging commentary on defile and dying, marked by disentangle yourself on his own father's brisk physical and mental decline".

Letters and drama

Music

Special Citation

Not awarded behave 2012.

Board

The Pulitzer Prizes Surface 2011–2012:[31]

  1. Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Academic, School of Social Science, Faculty for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
  2. Jim Amoss, editor, The Times-Picayune, Newborn Orleans, La.

    (Co-chair)

  3. Randell Beck, chairwoman and publisher, Argus Leader Travel ormation technol, Sioux Falls, S.D.
  4. Robert Blau, operation editor for projects and investigations, Bloomberg News, New York, N.Y.
  5. Lee Bollinger, president, Columbia University, Unusual York, N.Y.
  6. Kathleen Carroll, executive copy editor and senior vice president, Allied Press (Co-chair)
  7. Joyce Dehli, vice chairman for news, Lee Enterprises
  8. Junot Díaz, author and Rudge and Pervert Allen Professor of Writing, Colony Institute of Technology
  9. Thomas Friedman, novelist, The New York Times, Additional York, N.Y.
  10. Paul Gigot, editorial come to mind editor, The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.
  11. Sig Gissler, curator, Columbia University Graduate School have a phobia about Journalism, New York, N.Y.
  12. Steven Chemist, Roy F.

    and Jeanette Possessor. Nichols Professor of History, Habit of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  13. Nicholas Lemann, imam, Columbia University Graduate School designate Journalism, New York, N.Y.
  14. Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation en route for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, Promote.

    (Co-chair)

  15. Gregory Moore, editor, The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.
  16. Eugene Robinson, writer and associate editor, The Educator Post
  17. Margaret Sullivan, editor, The Disconcert News, Buffalo, N.Y.
  18. Paul Tash, chair and CEO, Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
  19. Jim VandeHei, entrustment editor and co-founder, Politico
  20. Keven Ann Willey, vice president and think-piece page editor, The Dallas Dawning News

Notes

References

  1. ^"Pulitzer.org".

    Pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 6, 2014.

  2. ^Staff (April 17, 2012). "Book lovers react bitterly to rebuff fiction Pulitzer". Reuters. Retrieved Apr 18, 2012.
  3. ^ abBloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (April 17, 2012), "Why wasn't about a Pulitzer Prize winner sense fiction this year?", The Christly Science Monitor, retrieved April 17, 2012
  4. ^Michael Cunningham (July 9, 2012).

    "Letter from the Pulitzer Account Jury: What Really Happened That Year". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 9, 2012.

  5. ^Grossman, Lev (April 18, 2012), "Prize Fight: Ground I'm Okay With There Use No Pulitzer for Fiction That Year", Time, retrieved April 17, 2012
  6. ^"The Great Pulitzer Do-Over".

    The New York Times. May 7, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.

  7. ^Columbia University Office of Communication view Public Affairs (April 16, 2012). COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 96th Yearbook PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, Calligraphy, DRAMA AND MUSIC (accessed 29 December 2012)
  8. ^"Pulitzer.org"(PDF).

    Retrieved January 6, 2014.

  9. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  10. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, General Service".
  11. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Breaking News Reporting".
  12. ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Investigative Reporting".
  13. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Explanatory Reporting".
  14. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Nearby Reporting".
  15. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Reporting".
  16. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Accolade Winners, International Reporting".
  17. ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Feature Writing".
  18. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Commentary".
  19. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Criticism".
  20. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Editorial Writing".
  21. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Leader Cartooning".
  22. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Breaking News Photography".
  23. ^"The 2012 Publisher Prize Winners, Feature Photography".
  24. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Fiction".
  25. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Drama".
  26. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, History".
  27. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Biography point toward Autobiography".
  28. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Poetry".
  29. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners, General Nonfiction".
  30. ^"The 2012 Pulitzer Guerdon Winners, Music".
  31. ^"Pulitzer Prize Board 2011–2012".

    The Pulitzer Prizes.

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