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Pulitzer Prizes

2026 Pulitzer Prizes

Excellence in journalism, letters, drama and music

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on May 4, 2026, at Columbia University. The Washington Post won the Public Service gold medal, and The New York Times won for investigative reporting. In books, Daniel Kraus's Angel Down won for fiction, Jill Lepore for history and Yiyun Li for memoir, and Bess Wohl's Liberation won for drama on its way to a Tony. AwardsEdit covers the 13 headline categories, with finalists.

Editor’s picks

Angel Down
Angel Down
Liberation
Liberation
The Washington Post
The Washington Post

The winners

13 of 13 decided

Journalism

Public Service
The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Staff
Investigative Reporting
The New York Times
Staff
International Reporting
Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer
Associated Press
Feature Writing
Aaron Parsley
Texas Monthly

Books, Drama & Music

Fiction
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
Drama
Liberation
Bess Wohl
History
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Jill Lepore
Biography
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
Amanda Vaill
Memoir or Autobiography
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
Poetry
Ars Poeticas
Juliana Spahr
General Nonfiction
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone
Music
Picaflor: A Future Myth
Gabriela Lena Frank