🌀 PULITZER 2025 — PETAL 015

May 9, 2025 | Category: News Drop / Awards & Honors

🪶 Intro Whisper:

From Gaza’s grief to literary grace, the Pulitzer Prize 2025 paints a poignant canvas of truth, resistance, and remembrance.

📰 Key Highlights

• What is the Pulitzer?
 The Pulitzer Prize, instituted in 1917 by newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, is considered the most prestigious award in American journalism, literature, and arts.

• Awarded by:
 Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

• Scope of Recognition:
 – 23 categories: 15 for journalism, 8 for Books, Drama, and Music
 – Awards include US$15,000, certificate, and a gold medal for Public Service

• Notable Historical Firsts:
 – First Reporting Award (1917): Herbert Bayard Swope for “Inside the German Empire”
 – First Indian Winner (1937): Gobind Behari Lal, Ghadar Party member, won for journalism

• Pulitzer Prize Winners 2025:
 – Fiction: James by Percival Everett
 – Drama: Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
 – Biography: Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts
 – Commentary: Mosab Abu Toha for his haunting pieces on Gaza published in The New Yorker

🧭 GS Mapping

GS Paper 1 – Art & Culture (Literature, Drama)
GS Paper 2 – International Relations (Israel–Palestine conflict, Freedom of Expression)
GS Paper 4 – Ethics in Journalism, Courage in Commentary

💭 A Thought Spark — by IAS Monk

The pen, when dipped in pain, becomes prophecy. And when truth walks through the fire, awards become secondary to its light.