Peter Balakian at Pulitzer Prize ceremony in New York on Oct. 13, 2016
NEW YORK (Armenian Weekly)—Peter Balakian received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the 100th anniversary Ceremony of the Pulitzer Prizes held at Columbia University on October 13. Balakian was one of the seven recipients in the fields of Letters, Drama, and Music.
Among the other recipients were Viet Thanh Nguyen in fiction for his novel The Sympathizer, Lin-Manuel Miranda in drama for the musical Hamilton, and jazz composer Henry Threadgill for “In for a Penny In for a Pound.â€
