The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners:

JOURNALISM

Public service: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Breaking news reporting: The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News staff

Investigative reporting: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of The Associated Press, and Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times

Explanatory reporting: David Kocieniewski of The New York Times

Local reporting: Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff, Harrisburg, Pa.

National reporting: David Wood of The Huffington Post

International reporting: Jeffrey Gettleman of The New York Times

Feature writing: Eli Sanders of The Stranger, a Seattle weekly

Commentary: Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune

Criticism: Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe

Editorial writing: No award

Editorial cartooning: Matt Wuerker of Politico

Breaking news photography: Massoud Hossaini of Agence France-Presse

Feature photography: Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post

ARTS

Fiction: No award

Drama: "Water by the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegr??a Hudes

History: "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by the late Manning Marable (Viking)

Biography: "George F. Kennan: An American Life" by John Lewis Gaddis (The Penguin Press)

Poetry: "Life on Mars" by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf Press)

General nonfiction: "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" by Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton and Co.)

Music: "Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts" by Kevin Puts, commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis on Nov. 12, 2011