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Peruvian journalist Carlos Lozada wins Pulitzer Prize

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

10:24 | Washington D.C. (U.S.), Apr. 16.

Peruvian journalist Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post's nonfiction book critic, has been awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, a prestigious award in journalism.

According to The Washington Post, "it was one of several Pulitzers awarded Monday for journalism that examined Trump's past and present and his impact on American society."

Lozada is a native of Lima, Peru, and a naturalized U.S. citizen who lived in California.

He attended high school in his homeland and then returned to the United States to pursue university studies.

Carlos Lozada joined The Washington Post in 2005 and became its nonfiction book critic in 2015. 

He has also served as The Post's Sunday Outlook editor, national security editor, and economics editor.

Previously, he was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University's Journalism School. 

In 2016, he received the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing for his essays and reviews on politics, race, and sexuality.

Lozada earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School

He is an adjunct professor of political journalism for Notre Dame's Washington program.


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Publicado: 16/4/2019