India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the
prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in
the poetry category for
his witty and philosophical collection of poems while The Washington Post and
Guardian were awarded for their reports on America's secret global surveillance
programmes.
Seshadri won the Pulitzer, considered the most
prestigious awards in journalism, for his work '3 Sections' which is a
"compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from
birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate
and remorseless."
The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism,
Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize
Board, were announced yesterday by Columbia University. A Columbia University
alum, Seshadri, 60, would receive a USD 10,000 prize. Born in Bangalore in
1954, Seshadri came to America at the age of five and grew up in Columbus,
Ohio. He became the fifth person of Indian-origin to bag the prestigious prize.
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