Donna Tartt became the winner of the Pulitzer Prize

The 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the field of fiction was awarded to Donna Tartt for the novel "Shchegol" (The Goldfinch).

The book , published last fall, received enthusiastic reviews from critics, became the bestseller of the year according to Amazon.com , was nominated for the National Society of Literary Critics and Carnegie Medal, the main British award in the field of children's literature, ABC News reports.

Alan Taylor will receive his second Pulitzer Prize for History, the best book in the Non-Fikshn category is recognized by Toms River Dan Feigin, the best biography-Margaret Fuller Meghanall, in the category of “Poetry” by Loireata became Vidge Seshadri.

According to The Chicago Tribune , the main journalistic categories won:

"For international reporting"
- Reuters agency - for reports on violence against the Muslim minority in Myanmar;

"For service to society"
- The Guardian and Washington Post - for investigating secret surveillance of citizens on the Internet carried out by the US National Security Agency;

"For the outstanding supply of sensational material"
- The Boston Globe newspaper - for reports on the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.

In addition to the photographers of The Boston Globe , Tyler Hicks ( The New York Times ), who documented the WestGate supermarket in Kenya, in the artistic - Josh Heiner ( The New York Times ), the author of a series of photographs about one of the explosions about an explosion on an explosion on one of the explosions on an explosion on an exposit Boston Marathon.

In total, the 2014 Pulitzer Prize was awarded in 14 categories in the field of journalism, literature, music and theater. The full list of laureates is given by The Wire .