2011年4月19日星期二

Canadian photographer wins the Pulitzer

Los Angeles Times photographer Barbara Davidson won the Pulitzer for a series of images including this one of Erica Miranda, 10, who was shot three times while playing basketball outside her home in Compton, Calif. Los Angeles Times Barbara Davidson photographer won the Pulitzer for a series of images which it Erica Miranda, 10, who was shot three times while playing basketball outside his home in Compton, California (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times / Associated Press)

A native of Montreal Barbara Davidson, a photographer working for the Los Angeles Times, is among the winners of the Pulitzer Prize, announced Monday.

She won the prize of photography of functionality for a series of images on victims of violence in the street in Los Angeles. Davidson spent almost two years to win the confidence of island communities such as South Los Angeles, Compton and Watts before striking images of those which have been slaughtered, many of them innocent victims.

This is Davidson a second Pulitzer - she won for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, when she worked for the Dallas News.

There are seven awards Pulitzer for drama, music and letters and 14 for journalism while the price for the latest news did not this year. The prize is administered by Columbia University and is equipped with 10 000 US dollars.

Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer for fiction. One visit Jennifer Egan team Goon, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Associated Press)

In fiction and drama, filled Chicago writers a blow, for Jennifer Egan taking a Pulitzer Prize for his novel a visit from the Goon Squad and Bruce Norris winner for Clybourne Park.

Egan novel is "the inventive investigation grow and old growth in the digital age, displaying a curiosity big-hearted on cultural change at the speed of light", the Pulitzer Board said in its citation. A visit from the Goon team also experimented with format, with a long section structured as a PowerPoint presentation.

Clybourne Park examines race relations and the effects of modern gentrification in a fictional neighborhood of Chicago. The play created at Playwrights Horizons, in New York in February before moving to London.

Other winners in writing and music:

History: The Fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and slavery to the United States by Eric Foner.Biography: Washington: a life by Ron Chernow.Poetry: the best: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan. non-fiction: the Emperor of all the ills: a biography of Siddhartha Mukherjee.Music Cancer: by Zhou long Madam White Snake

In journalism, the New York Times took two Pulitzer – for international reporting and commentary.

Clifford j. Levy and Ellen Barry won the prize in international reporting for their examination of the failing justice in Russia system, while David Leonhardt won the award for his economic commentary on topics ranging from the deficit of the US federal budget to health care reform.

The price of production of investigative reports went to Paige St. John's Herald Tribune Sarasota, Florida for a survey of the State blurred property insurance system which has finished stirring regulatory measures.

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