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    And the Pulitzers Went To...

    A full list of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners follows. A few surprises in there: did we know that Bob Dylan got a Special Citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power"? And that the Editorial Writing award went to... no one?

    PUBLIC SERVICE:
    The Washington Post

    BREAKING NEWS REPORTING:
    The Washington Post Staff

    INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING:
    Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times

    INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING:
    The Chicago Tribune Staff

    EXPLANATORY REPORTING:
    Amy Harmon of The New York Times

    LOCAL REPORTING:
    David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    NATIONAL REPORTING:
    Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

    INTERNATIONAL REPORTING:
    Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

    FEATURE WRITING:
    Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

    COMMENTARY:
    Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post

    CRITICISM:
    Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

    EDITORIAL WRITING:
    No Award

    EDITORIAL CARTOONING:
    Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily

    BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY:
    Adrees Latif of Reuters

    FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY:
    Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor

    Letters, Drama and Music Awards

    FICTION
    "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

    DRAMA
    "August: Osage County," by Tracy Letts

    HISTORY
    "What Hath God Wrought," by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

    BIOGRAPHY
    "Eden's Outcasts," by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

    POETRY
    "Time and Materials," by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

    POETRY
    "Failure," by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

    GENERAL NONFICTION
    "The Years of Extermination," by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

    MUSIC:
    "The Little Match Girl Passion," by David Lang (G. Schirmer)

    Special Citation:
    Bob Dylan

    Pulitzer Prize


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