One of the most prestigious US awards in literature, journalism, music and theater. In October 1911, the Hungarian-Jewish newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer (b. 1847) died. According to the will, a fund was founded in his name on the 2 million dollars left for this purpose.

The will was drawn up on August 17, 1903. This day is considered the date of the establishment of the Pulitzer Prize. Since 1917, the prize has been presented annually on the first Monday of May by the Trustees of Columbia University in New York. The amount of the award is 10 thousand dollars.

The Pulitzer Committee established the first personal prize in honor of a Russian journalist and presented it to Anna Politkovskaya for a detailed chronicle Chechen war. Twice winner of this award is the chief photographer of the Moscow Bureau of AP Alexander Zemlyanichenko.
Official website of the award: http://www.pulitzer.org/.

Winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Dramaturgy and Poetry

On April 16, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced at Columbia University in New York.

The winner was Andrew Sean Greer for his "philosophical, funny, wise and twisted novel" Less.

Andrew Sean Greer - American novelist, was born in 1970 in Washington, DC, in a family of scientists. He studied literature and writing at Brown University and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Montana. The first literary experiments were unsuccessful. In the late 1990s, Greer's stories began to be published in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker. The story "Darkness" (Darkness), reprinted in 2009, was awarded the O. Henry Prize. In 2000, Greer published a collection of short stories, How It Was for Me, to critical praise from The New York Times Book Review. In 2001, the first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published, ranked among the five most important literary events of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2004, the bestseller The Confessions of Max Tivoli was published. The novel was published in more than 20 countries of the world, incl. and in Russia, and brought the author prestigious awards: The California Book Award and Young Lions from the New York public library for authors under the age of 35.

John Updike called Greer's style "the style of the frustrated dandy that Proust and Nabokov mastered." The Story of a Marriage, released in 2008, met with a mixed reception. John Updike was not impressed. But The Washington Post chose the novel as the book of the year—"thoughtful, complex, and gracefully written." The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (2013) awaited an enthusiastic reception from critics and readers. In the United States, the author was again spoken of as "our Proust" and "the new Nabokov." It was Grieg's second book translated into Russian.

The hero of the novel "Lass" is a 47-year-old not very successful gay writer named Arthur, who hides his orientation, suddenly becomes the winner of a literary award for homosexuals. "How did they know I was gay?" he exclaims, adjusting his Japanese kimono as the agent informs him of the victory. He accepts the award and goes on a protracted promotional tour: New York, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Kyoto. His fellow travelers never heard of his books. Arthur conducts literary seminars for provincial teenagers. At this time, Arthur's boyfriend, taking advantage of his absence, decided to get married. In the end, the hero understands that somehow becoming famous at 50 is not so bad. Life really is just beginning.

In the nomination "Dramaturgy" the award was received by Martina Mihok for The Cost of Living.

The jury called "The Cost of Living" an honest, original work that makes you think about human relationships."

Martina Maiock was born in Poland, in Bytom. At the age of 5, she emigrated to the United States with her mother. They settled in Kearny, New Jersey. After graduation high school M. Mayek moved to Chicago. She studied at the University of Chicago and the Yale School of Drama. She is the author of numerous plays dealing with the problems of immigrants, women and the disabled. Winner of the New York Playwrights Award.

The play "Cost of Living" describes various situations through the prism of the relationship of former trucker Eddie, his paralyzed wife Anya, cerebral palsy John and his new guardian Jess. In 2016, the play was presented at the Manhattan Theater Club, in 2017 it was shown at the Williamstown Theater Festival.

In the Poetry category, Frank Bidart was named best for his book Twilight: Collected Poems from 1965 to 2016.

Frank Bidart is a scientist and poet born in 1939 in Bakersfield, California.

In 1957 he began to study at University of California in Riverside, where he met T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. He then went to Harvard, where Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop became his teacher and friend. Since 1972 F. Bidart taught English language at Wellesley College and nearby Brandeis University.

In the poet's early work, criticism noted dramatic monologues such as "Ellen West", which Bidart wrote from the point of view of a woman with an eating disorder, and "Herbert White", which he wrote from the point of view of a psychopath. He also wrote openly about his family in the style of religious poetry.

On August 7, 1903, Joseph Pulitzer, the famous American newspaper magnate and publisher, made a will in which he instructed, after his death, to establish an award for journalists, writers and educators. This day is considered the date of the establishment of the Pulitzer Prize, the amount of which is 10 thousand dollars. Over the years, such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Margaret Mitchell, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and others have been honored with it.

Pulitzer Prize- one of the most prestigious awards in American journalism and literature, music and theater. The award was established on August 17, 1903, when the will of Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), an American publisher, journalist, and founder of the yellow press genre, was made to create an award in his name. The Pulitzer Prize began to be awarded in May 1917 for outstanding achievements in literature and journalism. Its amount is 10,000 dollars.

The Pulitzer Prize was funded by an investment fund created after the publisher's death. In 1970, another foundation was set up, which managed to attract additional donations to pay for the awards of this prestigious award.

At the presentation of the Pulitzer Prize, the nomination "For Service to the Society" is especially noted. The nominee, in addition to monetary reward, is also awarded Golden medal. The award is given "for an exceptional example of worthy service to society."

The number of awards has increased over the years. In 1922 there was a prize for the best caricature. In 1942, an award for the most best photo. Since 1943, the list of nominees has been replenished with composers of music. In 1999, the nomination "Journalistic Investigation" was created. In 2006, they began to hold a competition among online content. Since 2009, the Pulitzer Prize has been awarded to journalists both for materials published in print media and for publications on the Internet.

Currently, the prize is awarded in 25 nominations, 14 of them are related to journalism.

The Literary Prize is awarded in 6 nominations:

"Behind art book written by an American writer, preferably about America";

"for a book on the history of the United States";

"For the biography or autobiography of an American author";

"For a poem";

"For non-fiction";

"For the best drama". In 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1964, 1971 and 1974 it was not awarded to anyone, as the jury did not reveal a single worthy literary work.

The prizes are awarded by Columbia University in New York on the proposal of the Pulitzer Committee. It consists of 19 experts - five publishers, six editors, six academics, including the university president and dean of the journalism department, one columnist and award administrator.

Who decides whether to award the prize? Who was the first Pulitzer Prize winner?

The first recipient of the prize in 1917 was American journalist Herbert Bayard. He was awarded the prestigious New York World Prize for a series of articles entitled "From Within the German Empire".

Who was awarded the award in 2014?

In April 2014 in New York, the Guardian and Washington Post journalists received prestigious awards in the category "For Service to the Society" for exposing materials about the illegal collection of data by American intelligence agencies.

The Pulitzer Prize for International Journalism was also awarded to two Reuters correspondents for a series of reports on the persecution of the Muslim minority, the Rohingya people, in Myanmar.

The Breaking News award went to The Boston Globe for their coverage of the Boston bombings.

Literary award in the nomination " Fiction"won Donna Tartt for the novel "The Goldfinch" ("The Goldfinch").

Drama nomination - Annie Baker for the play "Kinoshka" ("The Flick").

Musical "Pulitzer" was received by American composer John Luther Adams for the orchestral work "Become Ocean" ("Become Ocean").

Who else was among the winners of the Pulitzer Prize?

Over the years, Pulitzer Prize winners for literature have included Ernest Hemingway ("The Old Man and the Sea"), Harper Lee ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), William Faulkner ("A Parable"), Tennessee Williams ("A Streetcar Named Desire"), Arthur Miller (" Death of a Salesman"), Margaret Mitchell ("Gone with the Wind"), John Updike (for the novels "The Rabbit Got Rich" and "The Rabbit Settled").

The Pulitzer Prize for Music was awarded to Wynton Marsalis (1997), George Gershwin (1998), Duke Ellington (1999), Kevin Pats (2012).

The award for the best photo in different years was received by Don Bartletti for a series of photographs of people trying to leave Central America for the United States, Harry Trask for a series of photographs of the sinking Italian liner "Andrea Doria" taken 9 minutes before it went under water, Alexander Zemlyanichenko for a photograph of Boris Yeltsin dancing at a campaign concert, William Gallagher for a photograph of US presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's holey boot, Stan Grossfeld for a series of photographs of famine in Ethiopia, etc.

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Photography:

2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer for The New York Times.
The award is given for intrepid and breathtaking photographs of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

This year's Pulitzer Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for photojournalists, went to Tyler Hicks and Josh Haner.

Josh Haner received a nomination in the "special photography" category for a series of images that tell the story of Jeff Baum - one of the victims of the Boston bombings - who lost both legs and is now trying to return to normal life.

A team of photographers from the Associated Press was recognized as the best in the category "Top News Photography". It's about about the work that covered the Syrian Civil War. The agency's team of photographers who focused on the 2 year conflict included: Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Khalil Hamra, Muhammed Muheisen and Narciso Contreras.

A woman named Aida is crying. She was seriously injured after the Syrian military shelled her house in Idlib. Northern Syria, March 10, 2012. During the attack, Aida's husband and their two children were killed. Photographer Rodrigo Abd-AP.

Massoud Husseini - crying girl among those killed in Kabul.

2011

Barbara Davidson for a series of photographs of innocent victims of an urban gang shootout

Damon Winter for a series of photographs of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama

René Baer (The Sacramento Bee) for photographing a single mother and her son losing in the fight against cancer

Oded Balilti for photographing the confrontation between troops and residents of the West Bank

Deanne Fitzmaurice (San Francisco Chronicle) for photo of Iraqi boy injured in explosion

David Leeson and Cheryl Diaz Meyer for a photo series about the Iraq War

Don Bartletty ( Los Angeles Times) for a series of photographs of young people trying to leave Central America for the northern United States and in mortal danger

Matt Rainey (Star-Ledger) for a series of photographs of two friends injured in a dorm fire

Carol Ghusi, Michael Williamson and Lucien Perkins (Washington Post) for a photo series about Kosovo refugees

Associated Press team for photos of the Monica Lewinsky scandal

Clarence Williams (LA Times) for a series of photographs of children of drug addicted parents

1997

Alexander Zemlyanichenko (AP) for photographing Boris Yeltsin dancing at an election concert

1996

Stephanie Welsh for a photo series from Kenya about FGM

Associated Press team for work in Rwanda

Kevin Carter for photographing a starving child with a vulture watching him. After accusations that the photographer did not help the child, Carter committed suicide.

John Kaplan for a series of photographs depicting the generation of 21-year-olds

Stan Grossfeld for a series of photos of famine in Ethiopia

James Dickman for a series of photographs of life and death in El Salvador

John White for a series of photographs about life

Taro Yamasaki for photographs of the Michigan prison

Jahangir Razmi for photographing a firing squad in Iran

Stanley Foreman for the 1975 Boston Fire series of photographs

Rocco Morabito for the photo "Kiss of Life" in which one worker saves another after being electrocuted by giving him artificial respiration and heart massage right on the pole. The worker survived.

Jack Thornell for the photograph taken immediately after the shooting of James Meredith, a human rights activist

Harry Trask for a series of photographs of the sinking Italian liner "Andrea Doria", taken 9 minutes before she went under water

William Gallagher for photographing US presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's holey shoe. Stevenson lost to Eisenhower

1949

Nathaniel Fane for photographing baseball player Babe Ruth's last public appearance. Two months later, the athlete died of cancer

Earl Bunker for photographing the head of the family returning home to a small town in southeast Nebraska

1. The Short Fantastic Life of Oscar Wow by Juno Diaz

In the center of the plot is Oscar, who has excess weight, obviously not a handsome man living in comics and fantasy. But he is kind, bright, he is a romantic of his time. Living in a Spanish ghetto in America, he dreams of becoming the next Tolkien, but even more he wants to find his love. Everything would be fine, but an ancient family curse lies on him. Prisons, sorrows, debts and sorrows await these people, but most importantly - no happy love. For example, Oscar's mother is beautiful to the point of insanity, and also unhappy. And then the man decides to break the curse.

2. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

The work touches upon various questions, for example, why and thanks to what factors did European civilization achieve success in its development? What caused the development of industry, weapons, what prerequisites stood at the beginning of technological progress? What is the overall impact environment and the world around on our development and on the formation of mankind? This work, despite its fundamental nature, is very easy to read.

3. Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Theo miraculously survived at 13 after an explosion that caught him and his mother in the museum. Waking up, the teenager receives a ring and a picture from a dying old man, asking him to save these things. The boy takes them out into the street and appropriates them. From that moment on, his life becomes difficult and full of trials. He travels from new family to the family, knows fate from all sides. And the picture, kept for so many years, can become both his salvation and a curse that will finally destroy Theo, devoured by injuries and demons.

4. Middle Sex, Jeffrey Eugenides

"Middle Sex" is a story about a hermaphrodite. It is told in the first person, which makes it even more possible to feel everything that happened in the book and consider it a reality captured on the pages. But it would be a shame to think that it is only about a person who differs from the generally accepted rules. It is a story that captures the social, cultural and historical events twentieth century. All of them determine the fate of several generations of the Greek family, where the main character comes from.

5. "Foreign Connections" by Alison Lurie

Professor of English Literature Vinnie is 54 years old. She cannot be called a beauty, she was disappointed in men, and even more so in marriage, completely surrendering to science. Sometimes she is entertained by meaningless connections. Everything changes when Vinnie travels to England for work. Her life is changed by the uncouth and rude American Chuck. In parallel, we learn the story of Fred, who hates England and is annoyed by everything here. Until he meets a soap opera star and falls in love with her. All these stories are romantic, adventurous and filled with wonderful English humor.

6. Olivia Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout

Her novel "Olivia Kitteridge" is a true mastery of the writer in all its glory. I would like to note the magnificent language of the author, memorable and original characters. The plot seems deceptively simple, and it is. The book consists of short stories from small town life. The image of Olivia, a retired teacher who smokes and has her own opinion on everything, runs through all the plots, her tyrannical love for her family and friends is at the corner of this story. By the way, an equally brilliant mini-series was shot based on the novel.

7. Road, Cormac McCarthy

To some extent, readers will have to experience the emotional shock of reading, although the plot here is not particularly difficult. The writing style and authenticity are amazing. A father and his young son wander through the desert after a mysterious disaster. Their journey touches upon many important questions for humanity. For example, is it worth living where there is no life anymore. Where does the line of humanity end? Is it necessary to maintain life and fight for the sake of children? The path will change the heroes, one can only guess in which direction.

8. The Clock, Michael Cunningham

This is a complex and controversial novel, where all events are interconnected by the theme of time and its course. How does it affect writer's dreams and talent? How does it help or hinder the birth of the book? Can events separated in time and taking place at different moments affect the plot? Several lines, each with its own history. Virginia Woolf, post-war Los Angeles, 90s and modern New York. The plot is bizarrely woven into a knot that the reader has to unravel.

9. Ship News, Annie Prul

The plot revolves around an unsuccessful journalist who, due to a family tragedy, is forced to return to his native small island from noisy New York. Thus begins a story that spans several generations of his family, full of romance, adventure and tragicomedic incidents. Like any small community, there are secrets, skeletons in closets, resentments and hopes. The novel has also been made into an excellent film.

10. Beloved, Toni Morrison

The novel is based on real, and no less shocking events. The whole novel is saturated with questions of freedom and its price. In the 80s, in the nineteenth century, a black slave, saving her daughter from slavery, decides to kill the child in order to prevent her unhappy life. This is the story of a desperate woman and her fate, which is essentially worse than death.

11. Breathing Lessons by Ann Tyler

Maggie and Ira are a couple. She is impetuous, sharp, energetic. He is calm, reserved, charming. It's been opposites attracted in marriage for almost 30 years. It seems that their family everyday life is boring and generally ordinary. One day they go to the funeral of their old friend. Suddenly they hear on the radio that ex-daughter-in-law goes down the aisle again. A boring journey turns into a real rescue operation, because the happiness of their son and his love are at stake. As a result, we get a bitter but charming story of one day of life. married couple. This is a new look at modern relations, their essence, there is a place for both comedy and drama.

We hope that among this motley list you will find a book to your liking and mood. We intentionally did not include in the selection the long-known and already somewhat boring Pulitzer Prize masterpieces, like "Gone with the Winds", which are already on everyone's lips and which can be easily found in the school curriculum.

The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious US awards in literature, journalism, music and theater. It was founded by American journalist and publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

In 1904, Pulitzer made a will in which he donated two million dollars to Columbia University. The media mogul wanted three-quarters of that money to go towards creating high school journalism, and the remaining amount should be spent on creating an award for American journalists.

In his will, Pulitzer asked for four awards each year in journalism, four in literature, and one in education. He wanted individual awards to be given for best novel, drama, United States history book and biography.

In October 1911, Joseph Pulitzer died. A year after Pulitzer's death, the Columbia School of Journalism was founded, and in 1917 a prize called the Pulitzer Prize was established.

Its first laureate was the American journalist Herbert Bayard Swape for the series "From Within the German Empire", published in the New York World in October 1916.

The heirs exactly fulfilled the will of Pulitzer, who bequeathed to form a supervisory board of newspaper publishers. In addition, he wanted the president of Columbia University, scientists and "other respectable people who are neither journalists nor editors" to sit on this body.

Since 1917, the Board of Supervisors has repeatedly exercised its right, enshrined in Pulitzer's will, to increase the number of awards. In 1922 there was a prize for the best caricature. In 1942, the award for the most outstanding photograph was added to it (later this nomination was divided into two - for news photography and art).

In 1999, the Supervisory Board allowed Internet reporters to participate in the "Journalistic Investigation" nomination. Since 2006, online content (reports, photographs) of the paper press has been accepted for consideration.

Since 2009, the Pulitzer Prize has been awarded to journalists both for materials published in print media and for publications on the Internet.

Instruction

The date of establishment of the award is August 17, 1903 - the day when the American newspaper magnate of Hungarian-Jewish origin Joseph Pulitzer made a clause in his will that negotiated the conditions for the founding of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and the creation of a special fund named after Pulitzer, which should pay cash prizes outstanding figures in the field of literature, music, journalism and theater. For these purposes, the businessman, who died in October 1911, bequeathed 2 million dollars.

The award, presented annually by the Trustees of Columbia University in New York, is $10,000. Seven times in the history of the award (in 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1964, 1971 and 1974) it was not awarded to anyone, because the jury could not single out a single work worthy of an award.

In 1942, the organizing committee of the Pulitzer Prize decided to award it to photojournalism as well. And since 2006, not only works in paper form, but also works from the Internet.

Over the years, such well-known literary works as the novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, the story "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway and the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee were awarded the prize. However, most of the award-winning books have never been bestsellers, and many of the award-winning plays have never been made on Broadway. The situation was reversed in the journalism category, with major newspaper publications such as The Washington Post and The New York Times receiving most of the awards.

The first foreign nominee for the award was the Russian journalist Artem Borovik, whose report “Room 19” about the Brain Institute was shown on the American CBS channel. In April 2001, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Anna Politkovskaya, the author of a detailed chronicle of the war in Chechnya. The award was twice won by photojournalist Alexander Zemlyanichenko, who reported on the Moscow putsch in 1991 and photographed President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock concert.

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Forty-four-year-old Grigory Yakovlevich Perelman, rightfully considered one of the most smart people world, received a well-deserved award for solving the so-called Poincaré hypothesis in the scientific community - a complex mathematical problem, the solution of which, by the way, he easily posted on the Internet. The problem is devoted to finding evidence that a three-dimensional space without holes has the shape of a sphere stretched in space.

This hundred-year-old riddle is finding the shape of the universe, proof that our Earth is round.

Riddle in 3D

According to mankind's ideas about three-dimensional spheres, close up they are no different from three-dimensional spaces, the so-called three-dimensional manifolds, of which there are a great many in nature. The French mathematician Poincaré voiced the theory that, given a certain number of properties, one can unmistakably assert that a three-dimensional manifold is nothing more than a sphere.

ingenious failure

The Thurstonai conjecture itself, of which the stated problem is a special case, was put forward as early as 1904. In 2006, the Genius Perelman was awarded the Fields Prize, and in 2010 the Millennium Prize, which he safely refused, saying that the very fact of such an achievement is already the greatest award in his life. The proofs that were provided by Gregory were carefully checked by leading specialists in the field of topology, who unanimously came to the conclusion that they were absolutely correct.

It is interesting that one of the greatest mathematicians lives quite modestly and does not differ in any way from ordinary residents of ordinary panel nine-story buildings in the Kupchinsky district, except for a not quite well-groomed curly beard and a special view of the universe.

The Fields Prize is the highest international award in the field of mathematics, it is awarded to one scientist every 4 years. Accompanied by a badge of distinction - a gold medal.

Today, books and even pictures are written about Grigory Perelman, this great recluse has forever remained the object of numerous gossip and discussions among members scientific community as a man who did not take a million dollars just because he did not want “everyone to stare at him like an animal in a zoo”, and who believes that for the life and work of an individual “money and fame are not needed, only peace and solitude.”

However, Grigory Yakovlevich was not always a recluse, he worked at leading universities in the United States and Russia, even gave lectures, but today he lives with his mother and does not even communicate with his neighbors.

Great scientists at all times did a lot to develop knowledge about the world of their contemporary society. Some of the knowledge of the great researchers of the Middle Ages could cause horror, but now the most prominent scientists are nominated for special awards. The most prestigious award in the field of science is considered Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize is the most honorary award in the field of science. She is only the best figures in the field of physics, literature, medicine. The area of ​​science for which the award is due may include research on nanotechnology and. There is also the Nobel Peace Prize. It can be received by those who have made every effort to strengthen the world.

There is a certain paradox in the existence of this award, because it was created by a man who “gave” the world nitroglycerin, dynamite and the latest detonator for explosive devices.

Alfred Nobel was a great scientist and poet. His main idea was peace on Earth, he wanted to do everything in order to prevent war. Science and literature were also his main associates.

Alfred left behind a sum of nine million dollars. They were supposed to be given to people who made an incredible contribution to literature, physics, chemistry, or the strengthening of the world. The first award was made on December 10, 1901.

The award is awarded only in Sweden, since its founder was a citizen of this particular country. There is a rule that only one person and one time can receive an award. This condition does not apply only to rewards for peace.

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