Here’s Every Smart Person Who Won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, and the winners went straight to Twitter to air their joy.
*Gets in time machine, grabs 12 year old me by the face*
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 18, 2016
IT GETS SO GOOD KID, JUST HANG IN THERE https://t.co/PhTYBC6aV8
In the ongoing list of reasons everyone is sad that it’s impossible to get tickets to “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical won in the drama category. “Hamilton” is straight killing it on Broadway right now; also, Miranda is straight killing it himself, starring as Alexander Hamilton in the musical. You won’t be able to get tickets, but you can read the now-Pulitzer-winning script, or, you know, buy the soundtrack. Consolation prizes abound!
Hot damn. I won a goddamn Pulitzer. Thank you to this wonderful magazine for letting me mouth off & think out loud.
— emily nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) April 18, 2016
Emily Nussbaum, the New Yorker’s TV critic, won the criticism Pulitzer, and it’s safe to say that she’s stoked. Her television commentary in the magazine is a welcome breath of fresh air in a publication that can err on the side of stuffy, and she consistently gets it right when it comes to dissecting the best (and worst) of Netflix and beyond.
Possibly Viet Thanh Nguyen is asleep, as he’s posted nothing to Twitter in the past 22 hours, but his debut novel, The Sympathizer , won in the fiction category, proving that you can totally nail your first effort at something every so often. (High five, Nguyen!) The University of Southern California prof, who was born in Vietnam and grew up in the US, joins the likes of John Cheever (The Stories of John Cheever), Toni Morrison (Beloved) and Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), all previous fiction awardees.
This is the hundredth time Pulitzers have been handed out, though in their premier year, 1917, there were a lot fewer categories, as well as some categories that have since been discontinued (later, Newspaper History Award).
Here’s the full list of winners!
Journalism
Public Service: The Associated Press
Breaking News Reporting: The Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporting: Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay News and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Explanatory Reporting: T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of the Marshall Project
Local Reporting: Tampa Bay Times
National Reporting: The Washington Post
International Reporting: Alissa J. Rubin of The New York Times
Feature Writing: Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker
Commentary: Farah Stockman of the Boston Globe
Criticism: Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker
Editorial Writing: John Hackworth of Sun Newspapers, Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Editorial Cartooning: Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee
Breaking News Photography: Mauricio Lima, Sergey Ponomarev, Tyler Hicks, Daniel Etter of the New York Times; and the photography staff of Thomson Reuters
Feature Photography: Jessica Rinaldi of the Boston Globe
Letters and Drama
Fiction: Viet Thanh Nguyen for The Sympathizer
Drama: Lin-Manuel Miranda for Hamilton
History: T.J. Stiles for Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Biography or Autobiography: William Finnegan for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Poetry: Peter Balakian for Ozone Journal
General Non-Fiction: Joby Warrick for Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Music: Henry Threadgill for In for a Penny, in for a Pound
