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In what year were the Pulitzer Prizes first awarded?

  • 1917

  • 1927

  • 1937

  • 1907

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The Pulitzer Prizes are annual American journalism awards that recognize outstanding work in American journalism, literature, and musical composition. The prizes were established by Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-American journalist and publisher, in his will in 1911. The first prizes were awarded in 1917.
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