Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.
The Balkans are generally considered to include, in whole or in part, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, and the European part of Turkey.
This excludes some portions of Serbia and some of Montenegro and much of Romania, but historically and politically they are considered to be Balkan states; the other eight nations are Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, continental Greece, and European Turkey.