Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music

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Rapper Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music, becoming the first non-classical or jazz artist to collect the award.

The 30-year-old Californian won the prize for his album Damn, released in April 2017.

Organisers said it offered "affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life".

Lamar won five Grammy awards for Damn in January - but lost the coveted album of the year prize to Bruno Mars.