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2008 Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism and the arts

JOURNALISM:

Public Service: The Washington Post

Breaking News Reporting: The Washington Post staff

Investigative Reporting: Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune Staff

Explanatory Reporting: Amy Harmon of The New York Times

Local Reporting: David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

National Reporting: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

International Reporting: Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

Feature Writing: Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

Commentary: Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post

Criticism: Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

Editorial Writing: No Award

Editorial Cartooning: Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily Breaking News

Photography: Adrees Latif of Reuters Feature Photography: Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor

ARTS:

Fiction: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

Drama: "August: Osage County," by Tracy Letts

History: "What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

Biography: "Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

Poetry: "Time and Materials," by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and "Failure," by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

General Nonfiction: "The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC: "The Little Match Girl Passion," by David Lang, premiered Oct. 25, 2007, at Carnegie Hall, New York. (G. Schirmer, Inc.)

SPECIAL CITATION: Bob Dylan