On Sunday, April 15, the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 21 categories ranging from Music to Investigative Reporting. While many of the prizes are granted for excellence in journalism, notable winners Kendrick Lamar, Frank Bidart, Andrew Sean Greer, and others were selected for prizes in letters, drama, and music.

Founded in the will of acclaimed journalist Joseph Pulitzer in 1904, the Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by jury to journalists, authors, and artists as “incentives for excellence” in their respected fields. The award is accompanied by a $15,000 cash prize.

Here’s an abbreviated list of creative writing winners and finalists:

Fiction
Winner: Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Le Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)
Finalists: Hernan Diaz, In the Distance (Coffee House Press) and Elif Batuman, The Idiot (Penguin)

Poetry
Winner: Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists: Patricia Smith, Incendiary Art (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press) and Evie Shockley, semiautomatic (Wesleyan University Press)

General
Nonfiction Winner: James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Finalists: Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World (Farrar Straus and Giroux) and Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us (Doubleday)

Drama
Winner: Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
Finalists: Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins, Everybody and Tracy Letts, The Minutes

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