Awarded the Pulitzer Prize

On April 10, the 2017 Pulitzer Prize were announced in New York.

In one of the most prestigious nominations, “Serving the Society”, the newspaper New York Daily News and the Independent News Agency Propublica for the investigation of illegal police officers in the eviction of hundreds of people from state housing received the prize. The 2017 Pulitzer Prize was the eleventh in the history of the New York Daily News .

The Australian photographer Daniel Berehekulak received his second Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded in the nomination “The Best News Photography” for a series of pictures in The New York Times , telling about cruelty and neglect of human life, with which the Philippines government waged a struggle against drug dealers and drug addicts.

One of the three Pulitzer Awards this season The New York Times was awarded the international reporting nomination for materials on materials on the Russian leadership to influence the policy of other countries.

In the nomination "Fiction", the Prize was awarded to Kolson Whitehead for the novel "Underground Railway" - the history of the escape of two slaves from the plantation in Georgia.

The full list of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize is on its website.