Pulitzer winners for 2011 announced

US: The 95th Pulitzer Prizes have been announced with Jennifer Egan winning the prize for fiction and the Los Angeles Times receiving the coveted public service Pulitzer.The prizes, which are administered by New York's Columbia University, were handed in a ceremony Monday, AP reported. Pulitzers were awarded in 13 journalism and seven arts categories.

Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Bruce Norris won the drama award for his play Clybourne Park, and the history prize went to Eric Foner for his work The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. In the biography category, Ron Chernow was awarded for Washington: A Life, and Madame White Snake by Zhou Long won for music.

The poetry prize went to Kay Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, and Siddhartha Mukherjee won the award for general nonfiction for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.In the major journalism categories, The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Rago won for editorial writing, and The Los Angeles Times won for its coverage of city officials in Bell, California, who awarded themselves enormous pay packages.

David Leonhardt of the New York Times was awarded in the commentary category for what the committee said was "his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic question," and the Times' Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry won the prize for international reporting. In feature photography, Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times won the award, and the Washington Post's Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti won the award for breaking news photography. Presstv