Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

Question

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I (Pulitzer award categories)

A. Fiction

B. Music

C. Biography

D. Drama

List-II (Awardee in 2025)

1. Jason Roberts

2. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3. Susie Ibarra

4. Percival Everett

1. A. A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
2. B. A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2 (Correct answer)
3. C. A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
4. D. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2

Correct Answer

Option B — A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2.

Key Points

• A. Fiction — 4. Percival Everett, for the novel *James*.
• B. Music — 3. Susie Ibarra, for *Sky Islands*.
• C. Biography — 1. Jason Roberts, for *Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life*.
• D. Drama — 2. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, for *Purpose*.
• The correct matching is therefore A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2, option (b).

Additional Information

• Note on the published key: some answer keys in circulation mark option (c) for this question. That is inconsistent with the 2025 winners themselves — Jason Roberts won in Biography and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in Drama, not the other way round. The matching given above is the one supported by the actual awards.
• The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 under the will of the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University, New York.
• It is awarded in journalism (the categories for which it is best known) as well as in letters, drama and music, and is regarded as the most prestigious honour in American journalism.
• Indians and persons of Indian origin who have won the Pulitzer include Gobind Behari Lal, Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, 2000, for *Interpreter of Maladies*), Siddhartha Mukherjee (General Non-fiction, 2011, for *The Emperor of All Maladies*) and photojournalists Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave.