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  1995 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1995 were announced on April 18, 1995.
Thomas, for its disclosure of the links between the region's rampant crime rate and corruption in the local criminal justice system.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1995_Pulitzer_Prize   (426 words)

  
 Alumni, College of Communication, UT Austin
The team was awarded the prize for its coverage of the devastating ethnic violence in Rwanda.
Bouju and an AP correspondent were the first to enter Karubamba, a village where at least 2,000 people were massacred after a plane crash that killed Rwanda's leaders and sparked the civil war.
The 1999 Spot News Photography Pulitzer Prize was awarded for coverage of the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
communication.utexas.edu /alumni/pulitzer/JMBouju.htm   (158 words)

  
 Communication: Alumni : Pulitzer Prize Winners
Lucian Perkins received the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for explanatory journalism while a photojournalist at The Washington Post.
He was awarded the prize for his series of photographs documenting a woman recovering from drug addiction and the three generations of her family who had also turned to drug abuse.
Perkins also won the Photographer of the Year Award from the National Press Photographer's Association in 1994 and was named winner of the World Press Photo of the Year in 1995 for a photograph of a small boy leaving war-torn Chechnya, a region of Russia.
communication.utexas.edu /alumni/pulitzer/perkins.html   (234 words)

  
 "The Pulitzer Prize in Music: 1943-2002"
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary and grew up amid affluence and aristocratic privilege.His decision to come to America in 1864 was a direct result of his determination to become a soldier.While on a visit to Germany, he had met U.S. recruiters and enlisted to fight as a Union soldier in the Civil War.
A controversial music Pulitzer was awarded in 1992 and spawned a tidal wave of responses and commentaries in newspapers throughout the country.
The 1996 prize was awarded to George Walker for his "Lilacs" (on a text from Walt Whitman for voice and orchestra) which was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
gurukul.american.edu /heintze/Pul1.htm   (3152 words)

  
 Poets & Writers - Grants & Awards 1995 July/August
The prize was established in 1986 by Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly.
The Bogin prize was established to award "a selection of four or five poems that reflects the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary, uses language in an original way, and takes a stand against oppression in any of its forms." It is open to all poets.
The Capricorn prizes are given yearly to a poet and a fiction writer over the age of 40 for book-length manuscripts, in recognition of excellence.
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 Pulitzer Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
(1932-) won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, Deja Vu for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
(1924-) shared the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Local General Spot News Reporting with fellow U of I alumnus Arthur M. Petacque for uncovering new evidence that led to the reopening of efforts to solve the 1966 murder case of Illinois Sen. Charles Percy’s daughter.
(1944-) shared the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for his work on a family’s struggle with poverty, illiteracy, crime, and drug abuse in Washington, D.C. Dash became a U of I faculty member in 1998 and is a Swanlund Chair and professor of journalism and Afro-American Studies.
www.publications.uiuc.edu /info/pulitzer.html   (792 words)

  
 Libraries of Recommended Reading for High School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography or History: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch (1995 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction).
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 The Modern Library | Reading Group Guides
Vladimir Nabokov), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and Saint-Exupéry: A Biography, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize.
She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs.
www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/backlist/results_au.pperl?authorid=27151   (108 words)

  
 Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, literature, music and drama were established by the 1904 will of Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th century journalist.
Administered by the Columbia School of Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded "for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life." Each winner receives a gold medal as well as a cash award of $10,000 (raised in 2003 from $7500).
Many Pulitzer Prize Winners go on to receive other literary awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature.
almaz.com /pulitzer   (141 words)

  
 Learn more about Literature of Canada in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction while in 1998 her novel Larry's Party won the Orange Prize.
The Griffin Poetry Prize a lucrative award for one Canadian and one foreign poet.
The Marian Engel Award is presented to a female Canadian writer in mid-career for the body of her work.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/literature_of_canada.html   (1770 words)

  
 The Pulitzers: St. Petersburg Times
homas French of the St. Petersburg Times has won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for "Angels and Demons," his portrait of a mother and two daughters killed while on vacation in Florida.
1980 -- Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the Church of Scientology by staff writers Charles Stafford and Bette Orsini.
1995 -- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing to Jeffrey Good for his four part series, "Final Indignities," which exposed flaws in Florida's probate system.
www.sptimes.com /Pulitzer98/awards.html   (318 words)

  
 UT Journalism: Pulitzer Prizes: Jean-Marc Bouju
Jean-Marc Bouju shared the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography with three photojournalists with the Associated Press.
Bouju’s 1995 entry was a photograph of refugee children pleading to be allowed to cross a bridge from Rwanda to Zaire.
For more information on the Pulitzer Prize, winners and their work, visit the official Pulitzer Prizes web site sponsored by the Columbia Journalism Review.
journalism.utexas.edu /awards/pprize/jbou.html   (185 words)

  
 Previous Releases - Pulitzer Prize Winning Author at the Mount October 2 - 9/17/2003 - ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, author of the national bestseller on diversity and education, A Hope in the Unseen, will speak at the College of Mount St. Joseph Theatre on Thursday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.
Suskind won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for his stories on Cedric Jennings.
He is also one of the prize winning authors whose writing appears in Profiles in Courage for Our Times (Hyperion, 2002), edited by Caroline Kennedy.
www.msj.edu /about/news/archives/2003_2004/index.asp?straction=readarticle&article=article_20040722_130110   (403 words)

  
 The 2000 Pulitzer Prizes
Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies." The journalism awards were dominated by The Washington Post, which won three prizes, and The Wall Street Journal, which won two prizes.
Winning the prize was bittersweet for the staff, many of whom lived in Littleton, said Frank Scandale, The Post's assistant managing editor for news, who supervised the Columbine coverage.
Previous criticism prizes have included photography reviews, but this was the first year that the Pulitzer board bestowed a prize solely for writing about that art.
partners.nytimes.com /library/arts/041100pulitzer-index.html   (2596 words)

  
 Canadian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for The Life of Pi.
Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and in 1998 her novel Larry's Party won the Orange Prize.
Matt Cohen Prize to honour a Canadian writer for a lifetime of distinguished achievement
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_literature   (2682 words)

  
 The Impact of the American Antiquarian Society
Many works have been honored by the prestigious prizes of the academic world and recognized by their peers as the seminal works in their fields.
The 1999 Bancroft Prize was won by Jill Lepore (Peterson, 1993-94) for The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
The 1995 Pulitzer Prize in History, the 1995 Bancroft Prize, the Beveridge Prize, and the 1996 SHEAR Book Prize were awarded to Alan Taylor (AAS-NEH, 1989-90; Mellon Senior Distinguished Scholar in Residence 2000-2001) for William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Knopf, 1995).
www.americanantiquarian.org /fimpact.htm   (314 words)

  
 Roth Talent Associates: Ron Suskind
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author of A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Ron Suskind, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer, best-selling author and teacher, is a rare talent, electrifying audiences both in person and in print.
Launched by the Wall Street Journal series for which Suskind won the 1995 Pulitzer® Prize for Feature Writing, Hope is one of the all-time most acclaimed books on the subject of race and class.
www.rothtalent.com /speakers/slist/suskind   (409 words)

  
 Mike Luckovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
He also received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2001, with additional nominations for 1998 and 2002.
Drawing Attention, a September 1995 article from Columns Magazine, hosted on the University of Washington website
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Luckovich   (396 words)

  
 Jonathan Holden -- Kansas Poet Laureate -- KSU Poet-In-Residence
To be a poet-in-residence at a university, the author has to have published a great deal of work and won various awards.
In 1995, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa chose Holden's poetry collection, "The Sublime," for the Vassar Miller Prize.
In 2000, he was a member of the committee that selects the Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry.
www.jonathanholden.com   (291 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Interview: Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright and Daniel Ahearn of the band Ill Lit discuss poetry and music
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Paul Muldoon Reads, Performs With his Band Rackett for Poetry Center of Chicago, Sept. 7.
It's nationally acclaimed and produced a Pulitzer Prize winner.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0154415.html   (254 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer To Speak During UMUC Course
Lucian Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer from The Washington Post newspaper will speak as part of UMUC’s JOUR 350 (Introduction to Photojournalism) course at 7:00 p.m.
His 1995 Pulitzer Prize, which he shares with Post reporter Leon Dash, was for their four-year study of the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family.
The National Press Photographers Association named Perkins Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1994 for his portfolio that included coverage of Russia, a subject he became fascinated with in the late 1980s.
www.umuc.edu /press/news66.html   (273 words)

  
 Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak at annual dinner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Educated at Phillips Academy and Williams College, Schiff was a senior editor at Simon and Schuster, which she left to write Saint Exupéry: A Biography, published by Knopf in 1994.
It was a 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist and received numerous awards abroad.
Her essays and articles were published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.
www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/02/6/pulitzer'.html   (375 words)

  
 NMSU Library Award Winning Books
The Booker Prize Awards are the Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland's annual award for the outstanding novel in fiction.
The Orange Prize, established in 1996 by Orange plc, a UK telecommunications corporation, honors and celebrates fiction written by women and published in the United Kingdom.
The Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1917, for excellence in journalism, letters: fiction, nonfiction, autobiography or biography, history and poetry, drama and music.
lib.nmsu.edu /depts/collserv/AWARDS99.html   (9760 words)

  
 Events List | Ann Arbor District Library
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner will make a special appearance at Washtenaw Community College (4800 Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor Township) as part of the 2006 Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads.
He will discuss his book, "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time," which was chosen as the focus of this year's Reads program.
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for The Beak of the Finch.
www.aadl.org /events/list?id=7437   (422 words)

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