The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, honoring 24 winners in journalism and the arts.
The awards were announced amid an ongoing lawsuit by President Trump against the Pulitzer board regarding 2016 election-related reporting.
Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller noted pressures on journalism and creative work but stated the fields remain robust.
Arts & Letters
Fiction
- Winner: Daniel Kraus for "Angel Down", a novel about World War I soldiers finding a fallen angel, written in a single sentence.
History
- Winner: Jill Lepore for "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution".
General Nonfiction
- Winner: Brian Goldstone for "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America".
Biography
- Winner: Amanda Vaill for "Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution".
Memoir or Autobiography
- Winner: Yiyun Li for "Things in Nature Merely Grow".
Poetry
- Winner: Juliana Spahr for "Ars Poeticas".
Drama
- Winner: Bess Wohl for "Liberation".
Music
- Winner: Gabriela Lena Frank for "Picaflor: A Future Myth".
Journalism Prizes
Public Service
- Winner: The Washington Post for coverage of the Trump administration's federal agency overhaul.
Breaking News Reporting
- Winner: Staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune for coverage of a school shooting.
Investigative Reporting
- Winner: Staff of The New York Times for reporting on President Trump's conflicts of interest.
Explanatory Reporting
- Winner: Susie Neilson, Megan Fan Munce, and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle for series "Burned" on insurance claim issues after fires.
Beat Reporting
- Winner: Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of Reuters for reporting on Meta.
Local Reporting
- Winners: Dave Altimari and Ginny Monk of The Connecticut Mirror, and Sophie Chou and Haru Coryne of ProPublica, for series on towing laws.
- Winners: Staff of The Chicago Tribune for coverage of ICE sweeps.
National Reporting
- Winner: Staff of Reuters for reporting on presidential use of government power.
International Reporting
- Winner: Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal, and Yael Grauer of Associated Press for investigation on mass surveillance tools.
Feature Writing
- Winner: Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly for personal account of floods.
Criticism
- Winner: Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News for architecture criticism.
Opinion Writing
- Winner: M. Gessen of The New York Times for essays on authoritarian regimes.
Illustrated Reporting and Commentary
- Winner: Anand RK, Suparna Sharma, and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg for "trAPPed" on digital scams.
Breaking News Photography
- Winner: Saher Alghorra of The New York Times for series on Gaza devastation.
Feature Photography
- Winner: Jahi Chikwendiu of The Washington Post for photo essay on a family dealing with cancer.
Audio Reporting
- Winner: Staff of Pablo Torre Finds Out for investigation on LA Clippers salary cap issues.
Special Citation
- Winner: Julie K. Brown of Miami Herald for reporting on Jeffrey Epstein.