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India born poet Vijay Seshadri won 2014 Pulitzer Prize in poetry category

Vijay Seshadri won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems entitled 3 Sections published in 2013. The Pulitzer Committee described Vijay's Seshadri (an Indian-born US poet) creation 3 Sections as a compelling collection of poems that examines human consciousness, from birth to dementia that turns witty and grave compassionate and remorseless.  

The 98th Annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Drama, Letters and Music were announced by Columbia University in New York. As a reward, Vijay would receive US $10000

The prize is given in the poetry category for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. With this, Seshadri became the fifth person of Indian origin to win the prestigious award. The other four Indian origin people to bag the award are

1. Gobind Behari Lal in 1937 – was a science editor and was awarded in the reporting category 

2 Jhumpa Lahiri (Indian-American author) got Pulitzer for fiction in 2000 for her collection of stories Interpreters of Maladies

3. Geeta Anand (Journalist-writer of Indian origin) was awarded in 2003

4. Siddhartha Mukherjee (Indian-American physician) was awarded in 2011 for his book on cancer named 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

About Vijay Seshadri 

• At present he teaches poetry and non-fiction writing at liberal arts college Sarah Lawrence in New York 

• He was born in 1954 in Bangalore and migrated to America at the age of five and grew up in Columbus, Ohio 

• He is the author of Wild Kingdom (1996)

• The Long Meadow (2003) that won the James Laughlin Award