Kendrick Lamar received the Pulitzer Prize

On April 16 at Columbia University, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize laureates were announced in New York. In the nomination "Music", the prize was awarded to Raper Kendrik Lamaru for the album "Damn."

On the website of the Pulitzer Prize "Damn." Designed as "a collection of linguistic reliability and rhythmic dynamism of virtuoso songs, exciting sketches of the modern life of African -Americans in all its complexity." This year "Damn." Already brought Kendrika Lamaru Grammy in the category "Best rap album".

The 2018 Potzer Poston Poston Post, The Press Democrat, The Arizona Republic, USA Today Network, The New York Times and other publications became laureates.

For the second year in a row, the prize is awarded for the coverage of the cruelty of the drug warfare, which is conducted by the Government of the Philippines. A year ago, Australian photographer Daniel Berehekulak was received , this season - Reuters correspondents Claire Baldwin, Andrew Marshall and Manuel Mogato. In addition, Reuters photographers were awarded-for a series of pictures dedicated to the-Rohyndia refugees from Myanmar.

In the nomination “Fiction”, the Pulitzer Prize was awarded Andrew Shonu Geru for the novel “Less” , in the nomination “Drama” - Martina Magke for the play “Cost of Living” , in the nomination “History” - Jack Davis for an eco -session of the Gulf Mexican: the Making of An American sea , in the nomination "Biography" - Caroline Fraser for the book "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder" , dedicated to the writer Lore Ingles Wilder, in the nomination "Poetry" - Frankie Biddarta for the collection “Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965–2016” , in the “Documentary Prose” nomination-James Forman Master for Locking Up Oour Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.

PS The selection of photographs of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize published by Interfax .