The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. They are:

FICTION – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

DRAMA – August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

HISTORY – What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY – Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

POETRY – Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

POETRY – Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

GENERAL NONFICTION – The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC – The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer)