The Pulitzer Prize winners for 2017

Tuesday, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:55pm

The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes have been announced.

The Pulitzers honour the best in journalism and the arts produced in the United States in the past year, and the winner in each category is awarded a $15,000 (US) cash prize.

The full list of 2017 winners can be found on the Pulitzer Prize website. Here is a rundown of this year's literary winners:

• Drama: Sweat by Lynn Nottage
• Fiction: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• History: Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
• Biography or Autobiography: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
• General Nonfiction: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• Poetry: Olio by Tyehimba Jess

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