(New York) The assassination attempt by Donald Trump and the ravages of wars in Sudan and Gaza dominated the Pulitzer prizes, annual American press and literature awards given Monday by Columbia University in New York.
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More prestigious awards for American journalism, the Pulitzer awards have rewarded the work of the teams of Washington Post For their “bright and emergency” cover of Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on July 13 during a rally in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump’s images, injured in his ear, blood flowing on the face and raised fists, had gone around the world.
The Pulitzer Committee praised the “detailed account” and the “fine analysis” by the Washington Post From this event in the middle of the presidential campaign, won by the Republican.
The question of the right to voluntary pregnancy interruption (abortion), in the heart of the American campaign, earned the media Propublica Pulitzer for public service journalism.
Propublica The death of a 28 -year -old woman had made in September, Amber Thurman, in a hospital in Georgia in August 2022, impruating him to a lack of care caused by the restrictive laws on abortion in this state. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris deplored the death of Amber Thurman, incriminating the decline in women’s rights orchestrated by Donald Trump.
Still in the United States, the news agency Reuters won the “investigation journalism” category for its “daring” work on “laxist” laws that allowed Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, responsible for many overdoses in North American soil, to sell at low prices.
In the arts, the author Percival Everett won the pulitzer for the best novel with Jameswork that returns to the classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain to “illustrate the absurdity of racial supremacy”, according to the committee.
“Hope” and “Humanity”
In the category of the best international report, the committee rewarded the work of New York Times And his journalist Declan Walsh for their cover of the bloody conflict in Sudan, especially on the illicit trade in gold and regional negotiations in the heart of local clashes.
The Pulitzer are overseen by Columbia University, the epicenter of Propalestinian demonstrations on American campuses but today in full controversy following the arrest of foreign students, who had participated in the demonstrations against the war in Gaza and faced threats of expulsion from the country.
The Pulitzer Committee awarded the Palestinian poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, in the “Comment” category for texts published in the magazine New Yorker On the “physical and emotional carnage in Gaza”.
These texts, underlines the committee, combine “fundamental report and intimate memory” and thus testify to “the experience of the Palestinians” in the last and a half year of bombing.
“I just won the Pulitzer Prize in the“ Comments ”category. Whether it brings hope, that it becomes a tale, “said Mosab Abu Toha on social networks, citing the last words of If I must die (If I have to diein French), poem by the Palestinian author Refaat Alareer, his great friend, killed in December 2023 in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
Palestinian photographers of the France-Presse Agency (AFP) were finalists in the photography category of “Breaking News” for “powerful images” which testify to “the humanity of the Gaza population in the midst of large-scale destruction and losses”.
The photographer of New York Times Doug Mills won the bet in this category for his photos of the assassination attempt by Donald Trump, including an image of a ball whistling in the air while the candidate, who has since become president, speaks to the crowd.
