2011 Pulitzer Prize 2011 Pulitzer Prize The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, April 18, 2011. "The Los Angeles Times" won two prizes, including the highest honor for Public Service. "The New York Times" also won two awards. No prize was handed out in the Breaking News category. "The Wall Street Journal" won an award for the first time since 2007. Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" picked up the Fiction prize after already winning the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award. Photographer Carol Guzy of "The Washington Post" became the first journalist to win four Pulitzer Prizes. In December
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry" is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published during the preceding calendar year. Finalists have been announced since 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner. The 1918 and 1919 Pulitzers included Special Citations for poetry books, "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society", which the Pulitzer program now lists as Poetry prizes. See Special Pulitzers for Letters. In its first 92