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Plight of refugees among themes of Pulitzer prize winners
19th April 2016 | AP | REUTERS
The plight of refugees was among the social issues tackled by this year's Pulitzer Prize winners.
Among the prize's arts categories, former refugee Viet Thanh Nguyen won the fiction prize Monday for “The Sympathizer” – an immigrant tale told in a “wry, confessional voice.”
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Caribbean emigrant Alexander Hamilton, won for drama. In journalism.
The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on abuse in the seafood industry that helped free 2,000 slave laborers, and Reuters and The New York Times shared the breaking news photography award for images of the European refugee crisis.
The Pulitzer Board, in conferring the most prestigious honours in US journalism and the arts on Monday, also honoured the Los Angeles Times for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the massacre by militants in San Bernardino, California.
The AP's prize-winning “Seafood from Slaves” report was an investigation into the mistreatment of workers in Southeast Asia used to supply seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants. The coverage resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave labourers and sweeping reforms, the board said.
The reporters “found captive slaves, countering industry claims that the problems had been solved,” AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll wrote in her nomination letter to the Pulitzer judges.
“US customs records show the (slave-peeled) shrimp made its way into the supply chains of major US food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Whole Foods, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Red Lobster and Olive Garden,” the AP reported in the series of 10 articles.
This year's announcement at New York's Columbia University marked the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzers, which began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
New York Times photographers Daniel Etter, Sergey Ponomarev, Mauricio Lima and Tyler Hicks (L-R) react as they are applauded by their colleagues in the newsroom after winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in New York, April 18, 2016.─Reuters
This undated photo provided by Columbia University shows Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of "The Sympathizer," the Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction announced Monday.─AP
Associated Press staff applaud after it was announced that the news organization had won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York. The AP won prize for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables, an investigation that spurred the release of more than 2,000 captive workers. (AP Photo/Chuck Zoeller) — Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed withou
Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza, right, speaks in the New York newsroom as the AP wins the Pulitzer Prize for public service, Monday, April 18, 2016, in New York.─AP
A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos September 24, 2015.Reuters and The New York Times shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for images of the migrant crisis in Europe and the Middle East.─Reuters
Hungarian policemen stand over a family of immigrants who threw themselves onto the track before they were detained at a railway station in the town of Bicske, Hungary, September 3, 2015.─Reuters
The body of an unidentified migrant is seen on a beach after being washed ashore, on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 7, 2015.─Reuters
Migrants and refugees beg Macedonian policemen to allow passage to cross the border from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm, near the Greek village of Idomeni, September 10, 2015. ─Reuters
19th April 2016 | AP | REUTERS
The plight of refugees was among the social issues tackled by this year's Pulitzer Prize winners.
Among the prize's arts categories, former refugee Viet Thanh Nguyen won the fiction prize Monday for “The Sympathizer” – an immigrant tale told in a “wry, confessional voice.”
“Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Caribbean emigrant Alexander Hamilton, won for drama. In journalism.
The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for reporting on abuse in the seafood industry that helped free 2,000 slave laborers, and Reuters and The New York Times shared the breaking news photography award for images of the European refugee crisis.
The Pulitzer Board, in conferring the most prestigious honours in US journalism and the arts on Monday, also honoured the Los Angeles Times for breaking news reporting for its coverage of the massacre by militants in San Bernardino, California.
The AP's prize-winning “Seafood from Slaves” report was an investigation into the mistreatment of workers in Southeast Asia used to supply seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants. The coverage resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave labourers and sweeping reforms, the board said.
The reporters “found captive slaves, countering industry claims that the problems had been solved,” AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll wrote in her nomination letter to the Pulitzer judges.
“US customs records show the (slave-peeled) shrimp made its way into the supply chains of major US food stores and retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger, Whole Foods, Dollar General and Petco, along with restaurants such as Red Lobster and Olive Garden,” the AP reported in the series of 10 articles.
This year's announcement at New York's Columbia University marked the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzers, which began in 1917 after a bequest from newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
