PanARMENIAN.Net - Ahead of the announcement of winners and nominated finalists on April 16, here is a short recap of some of the talented Armenians who have gone to great lengths and received the highly esteemed and reputable Pulitzer Prize. Perhaps one of the world’s most celebrated writers of the 20th century, William Saroyan won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1940 for “The Time of Your Life” but chose to reject the favor. Peter Balakian, a prolific Armenian American poet, writer and academic, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016 for his “Ozone Journal”. Besides, he contributed to The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's coverage of the clergy abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003. Another of Armenian Pulitzer winners is Patrick J. Sloyan who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his 1990 coverage of Desert Storm, the Persian Gulf War and its aftermath.