New York:Â India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems 3 Sections. The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday by Columbia University.
Seshadri’s 3 Sections is a “compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless,” the announcement said. The prize for the poetry category was given for a “distinguished volume of original verse” by an American author.
A Columbia University alum, Seshadri would receive USD 10,000 reward.
Born in Bangalore in 1954, Mr Seshadri came to America at the age of five and grew up in Columbus, Ohio.
He is the fifth person of Indian origin to bag the prestigious award, the first being Gobind Behari Lal in 1937. Jhumpa Lahiri got Pulitzer for fiction in 2000 for her collection of stories “Interpreters of Maladies”.
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