The winners of the 100th Pulitzer Prizes have been announced

The winners of the 100th Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday afternoon at Columbia University in New York. The prize, which is accompanied by a $10,000 award, honors "excellence in journalism and the arts."

Mike Pride, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, started off the announcement by noting that winners were once informed of their wins by US mail, then by telegram, whereas this year the announcement was being streamed live online and live-tweeted by Pulitzer staff.

The organization received over 3,000 entries across for its prize categories this year.

The prizes are as follows:

Among the winners of the Prizes for the arts were "The Sympathizer," by Viet Thanh Nguyen, for fiction, "Hamilton," by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for drama, and "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS," by Joby Warrick, for general nonfiction.

The full list of awards, with additional links to works and bios, can be seen on the Pulitzer website.

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