Pulitzer News

Board Addresses Questions about 2020 Prize in Commentary

The 1993 Poetry winner is the first woman to receive the award since 2010 and the first American since fellow Pulitzer winner Bob Dylan in 2016. Read the jury report for 'The Wild Iris,' her Pulitzer-winning collection.

Due to the COVID pandemic’s effects on the performing arts, requirements for consideration for 2021 Prize in Drama have been altered to accommodate the challenges faced by playwrights and theaters in producing new works this year.

For consideration in the 2021 Fiction, Poetry, Biography, Nonfiction and History Prize categories, please submit eligible work online by October 1, 2020. This year, all entries must be sent as ebooks. Read below for full details.

The 2016 Prize winner in Fiction and professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board

Veteran Deputy Administrator Edward Kliment will serve as interim administrator as Prize Board launches nationwide search for Canedy’s successor.

The Pulitzer Prize Board is deeply disturbed by reports of journalists being harassed and assaulted by some law enforcement officers as news organizations report on the police killing of George Floyd and the resulting national protests and civil unrest.

The Pulitzer Prizes exclusively will accept books entered in electronic form for the 2021 awards. The change will affect the Biography, General Nonfiction, History, Fiction and Poetry Prize categories.

In celebration of the 104th class of Pulitzer Prize winners, watch Canedy virtually ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, and Aminda Marqués González, president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.