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What, the guy isn't esteemed enough already? Bob Dylan
just won a "special citation" from the Pulitzer board, for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In other culture categories, prizes were won by
Junot Díaz's outstanding The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for Fiction; Mark Feeney, art critic at the Boston
Globe for Criticism; and — supporting
Charles Isherwood's rave-of-all-raves — Tracy Letts's
August: Osage County for Drama.
The Pulitzer Prizes [Official site]