5 INDIAN ORIGIN PEOPLE WHO WON PULITZER PRIZE

Recently(2014) India-born poet Vijay Seshadri won Pulitzer for poetry. This is not the first time when any
Indian origin person won Pulitzer.
Pulitzer Prize is one of the prestigious awards in the United States for achievements in newspaper and
online journalism, literature and musical composition. The award was established in 1917 after the
name of American publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Recently India-born poet Vijay Seshadri won Pulitzer for
poetry. This is not the first time when any Indian origin person won Pulitzer. We bring to you 5 Indian
origin winner of Pulitzer Prize including Vijay Seshadri.

Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri is the fifith person of Indian origin who succeeded to win Pulitzer Prize. Vijay Seshadri was
born in Bangalore and moved to US at five. He went to study Math and Philosophy at Oberlin College.
He published his first poetry The Thirteenpenny Review in 1985 while in 1996 he published his first
book of poem. His poem Disappearances which was written after 9/11 formed his reputation as a
poet. On 14th April 2014, Pulitzer Prize committee awarded his collection of poems 3 Sections with
Pulitzer Prize.
(3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press), "a compelling collection of poems that examine human
consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and
remorseless.")
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee was born in Delhi in 1970. Physician by profession Siddhartha Mukherjee
completed his graduation from Magdalen College, Oxford and then attended Harvard Medical School
where he earned an M.D. In 2010 publisher Simon & Schuster published his book The Emperor of All
Maladies: A Biography of Cancer which led him to win Pulitzer Prize in 2011 in the general non-fiction
category.

Geeta Anand

As an investigative reporter and feature writer for Wall Street Journal, Geeta Anand was born in
Mumbai. She won the award for his investigative writings about corporate scandals in America in 2003.
The Pulitzer Prize committee picked Wall Street Journal for the award and included 10 articles from the
newspaper, of which two were penned by Geeta Anand. She also has written a book on medical
investigation titled The Cure which has been made into successful film Extraordinary Measures.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Bengali girl Jhumpa Lahiri real name Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri won born in London, the daughter of
Indian immigrants from the state of West Bengal. Jhumpa Lahiri pursued her B.A degree in English
literature from Bernard College and completed masters from Boston University. She won Pulitzer Prize
in 2000 for her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maldies.

Gobind Behari Lal

Gobind Behari Lal born in Delhi in 1889 was a journalist and independence activist. He obtained B.Sc.
and M.A. degress from Punjab University at Lahore. He coined the term Science Writer and served as a
science editor for The San Francisco Examiner. He later went on to work for other newspapers and took
interviews of noble personalities like Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi and so on. He shared the
Pulitzer Prize in 1937 with other four reporters for coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard
University.