Nobel Prizes
Peace
Barack H. Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” •
Physiology or Medicine
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" • Economic Sciences: Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially
Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" •
Literature
Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Pulitzer Prizes
Public Service
The Washington Post • Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Washington Post • Investigative Reporting: Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, The New York Times; Staff of Chicago Tribune • Explanatory Reporting: Amy Harmon, New York Times • Local Reporting: David Umhoefer, Milwaukee Journal • National Reporting: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman, The Washington Post • International Reporting: Steve Fainaru, The Washington Post • Feature Writing: Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post • Commentary: Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post • Criticism: Mark Feeny, The Boston Globe • Editorial Writing: no award • Editorial Cartooning: Micahel Ramierz, Investor’s Business Daily • Breaking News Photography: Adrees Ltif, Reuters • Feature Photography: Preston Gannaway, Concord (NH) Monitor •
Fiction
The Brief Wondorus Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz •
Drama
“August: Osage County”, Tracy Letts •
History
"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) • Biography or Auto
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 Friedländer (HarperCollins)
Music
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