ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pulitzer Prize (/ˈpʊlɪtsər/) is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Recent News. Pulitzer Prize, any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded.

Detailed explanation-3: -The formal announcement of the prizes, made each spring, states that the awards are made by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize board. This formulation is derived from the Pulitzer will, which established Columbia as the seat of the administration of the prizes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Following a long interregnum stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 classes of Pulitzer Prize winners gathered at Columbia University’s Low Library on June 25 for a ceremony celebrating their awards.

Detailed explanation-5: -Although later critics and scholars have marginalized or excluded Teasdale from canons of early 20th century American verse, she was popular in her lifetime with both the public and critics. She won the first Columbia Poetry Prize in 1918, a prize that would later be renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.