Hello and welcome to Columbia University’s’ Pulitzer Prize Awards Night. Every year we gather here to acknowledge and celebrate America’s excellence in Journalism and Arts. The Pulitzer Prize has been around since 1917 and was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher with a keen eye for politics and journalism. Through his legacy and grant to Columbia University, Pulitzer was able to start up this internationally admired honour given annually to the best of the best. With twenty-one different categories and over two-thousand past recipients, the Pulitzer Prizes are America’s most prestigious honour and admiration in journalism and arts. Before I start announcing this year’s recipients I would like to thank Columbia University, our sponsors, the nineteen board members who work tirelessly determining each category winner and most of all Joseph Pulitzer, without his creativity and generous donations before his passing, none of this would be possible.
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Although the main criteria for winning this award is to be a citizen of America, not one board member could deny her talent and excellence in fictional writing. Hannah Kent, born in Adelaide, Australia in 1985, is a highly praised author who is most well known for her International Bestseller fiction novel, Burial Rites. Written in 2013, Burial Rites has already won various esteemed awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Book of the Year, the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award. Internationally praised by various newspapers and magazines, Washington Post described Ms Kent’s novel as, “a starkly compelling story of murder and love”. The Oxford Culture Review said, “Burial Rites is an excellently-written and meticulously researched
Although the main criteria for winning this award is to be a citizen of America, not one board member could deny her talent and excellence in fictional writing. Hannah Kent, born in Adelaide, Australia in 1985, is a highly praised author who is most well known for her International Bestseller fiction novel, Burial Rites. Written in 2013, Burial Rites has already won various esteemed awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Book of the Year, the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Victorian Premier’s People’s Choice Award. Internationally praised by various newspapers and magazines, Washington Post described Ms Kent’s novel as, “a starkly compelling story of murder and love”. The Oxford Culture Review said, “Burial Rites is an excellently-written and meticulously researched