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Medar de la Cruz, a Dominican-American cartoonist and illustrator born in Miami, Florida, and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York was awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. The award comes with a US$15,000 cash prize.

De la Cruz won the award for his contribution to The New Yorker magazine. The award is given “for his visually-driven story set inside Rikers Island jail using bold black-and-white images that humanize the prisoners and staff through their hunger for books.

The winning work, The Diary of a Rikers Island Library Worker, was published in The New Yorker on 12 May 2023.

The Pulitzer Prize website shares this biography on Medar de la Cruz.

Medar de la Cruz graduated with a degree in illustration from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California, and has worked as a freelance illustrator for The New York Times and The New...