Pulitzer Prize

noun

1. one of a group of annual prizes in journalism, literature, music, etc., established by Joseph Pulitzer: administered by Columbia University; first awarded 1917.

Pulitzer prize

noun

1. one of a group of prizes established by Joseph Pulitzer and awarded yearly since 1917 for excellence in American journalism, literature, and music

Example Sentences

Less than three years after joining the “Post,” Oliphant received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for an illustration of Ho Chi Minh carrying the body of a dead Vietnamese man.

From Salon

The shape-shifting novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel “The Orphan Master’s Son,” sets this expansive historical epic on the Polynesian islands, where a child from an endangered Indigenous tribe heads straight into the vortex of power in order to save her people.

From Los Angeles Times

“Spice of Dawns,” her 1952 book of poetry, earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1953, the year Ernest Hemingway won the fiction prize for “The Old Man and the Sea” and William Inge won the drama prize for “Picnic.”

From Los Angeles Times

The musical went on to win 11 Tony Awards, including best musical, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2016.

From Los Angeles Times

This year’s Ojai festival, led by super-flutist Claire Chase, brilliantly featured Anaheim native Susie Ibarra, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

From Los Angeles Times