The Pulitzer Prize board announced the winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes on Monday afternoon, recognizing journalism and books across more than a dozen categories. Daniel Kraus won the Fiction prize for his novel Angel Down, a story of World War I soldiers who find a fallen angel among the dead in No Man's Land, narrated entirely within a single sentence.

Jill Lepore won the History prize for We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, and Brian Goldstone won the Nonfiction prize for There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. M. Gessen won the Opinion Writing prize, and Yiyun Li also received a Pulitzer Prize.

The staff of The Minnesota Star Tribune won the Breaking News Reporting prize for coverage of a shooting at a back-to-school Mass at a Catholic school that left two children dead and 17 wounded. A New York Times team won the Investigative Reporting prize for stories exposing how President Trump exploited conflicts of interest to enrich his family and allies.

Susie Neilson, Megan Fan Munce and Sara DiNatale of The San Francisco Chronicle won the Explanatory Reporting prize for their series "Burned," which showed how algorithmic insurance tools undervalued properties, denied claims and hindered rebuilding for Californians who lost homes to fire. Jeff Horwitz and Engen Tham of a wire service won the Beat Reporting prize for reporting on Meta's exposure of users, including children, to scams and AI manipulation.

Ned Parker, Linda So, Peter Eisler and Mike Spector of the same wire service won the National Reporting prize for documenting how the president used the U.S. government and his supporters to expand executive power and exact vengeance on opponents. Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Yael Grauer of a newsgathering cooperative won the International Reporting prize for a global investigation into mass surveillance tools created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and used worldwide before secret use by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Reporters from two news organizations shared the Local Reporting prize: one team for a series on unscrupulous car-towing companies, and a newspaper staff for chronicles of ICE immigration enforcement sweeps in Chicago. The staff of the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out won the Audio Journalism prize for investigating how the Los Angeles Clippers paid a player extra money via an endorsement deal to circumvent NBA salary cap rules.

Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly won the Feature Writing prize for a personal account of survival and loss after Central Texas floods that destroyed his house and killed his nephew. Mark Lamster of The Dallas Morning News won the Criticism prize for architecture criticism advocating for city residents.

The Pulitzer board gave a special citation to Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown for her 2017 and 2018 investigations into Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse and the network that protected him. "The fields are robust, thanks to so many dogged and talented people," Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller said in remarks introducing the awards.

President Trump filed a lawsuit in 2022 against the Pulitzer Prize board over its decision to award reporting about alleged collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. That lawsuit is continuing.