The Irish-born poet Paul Muldoon has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection 'Moy Sand and Gravel'.
Muldoon, a professor at Princeton University in the US, has published 25 volumes of poetry and nine collections of his poems.
He said the award was "a terrific honour". "It comes as a complete shock and surprise."
The poems in 'Moy Sand and Gravel' take readers from Ireland in the 1950s to present-day New Jersey.
The Pulitzer Prize for poetry recognises a volume of original verse by an American author.
Muldoon was born in Northern Ireland and moved to the United States in 1987.
He won the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1994 and the Irish Times Poetry Prize in 1997.
The prize will be presented at Columbia University in May.
