Pulitzer Prize facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Pulitzer Prize |
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Obverse and reverse sides of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service gold medal, designed by Daniel Chester French in 1917
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Presented by | Columbia University |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 1917 |
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature and musical composition within the United States.
It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University.
Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017). The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.
Images for kids
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Columbia President Lee Bollinger presents the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction to Jeffrey Eugenides.
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The Pulitzer Prize certificate of Mihajlo Pupin, which used a recycled Columbia diploma
See also
In Spanish: Premio Pulitzer para niños