The full list of 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners:

Journalism:

Public service - Los Angeles Times

Breaking news reporting - Not Awarded

Investigative reporting - Paige St. John of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Explanatory reporting - Mark Johnson, Kathleen, Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Sig Gissler (L), administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, announces the results of the 95th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music at the Columbia University in New York, the United States, April 18, 2011. [Wu Kaixiang/Xinhua]

Local reporting - Frank Main, Mark Konkol and John J. Kim of the Chicago Sun-Times

National reporting - Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein of ProPublica

International reporting - Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times

Feature writing - Amy Ellis Nutt of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.

Commentary - David Leonhardt of The New York Times

Criticism - Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe

Editorial writing - Joseph Rago of The Wall Street Journal

Editorial cartooning - Mike Keefe of The Denver Post

Breaking news photography - Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti of The Washington Post

Feature photography - Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times

Letters, Drama and Music:

Music - "Madame White Snake'" by Zhou Long, which premiered on February 26, 2010 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.

Fiction - "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)

Drama - "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris

History - "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" by Eric Foner (W. W. Norton & Company)

Biography - "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow (The Penguin Press)

Poetry - "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems" by Kay Ryan (Grove Press)

General nonfiction - "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)