The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1980.

Journalism awards

• Public Service: Gannett News Service , for its series on financial contributions to the Pauline Fathers .
• Local General or Spot News Reporting : Staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer, for coverage of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
• Local Investigative Specialized Reporting : Stephen A. Kurkjian , Alexander B. Hawes Jr. , Nils Bruzelius , Joan Vennochi and Robert M. Porterfield of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, for articles on Boston's transit system.
• National Reporting: Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles Stafford of The St. Petersburg Times , for their investigation of the Church of Scientology.
• International Reporting: Joel Brinkley , reporter and Jay Mather , photographer of The Louisville Courier-Journal , for stories from Cambodia.
• Feature Writing: Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald, for "Zepp's Last Stand."
• Commentary: Ellen H. Goodman of The Boston Globe
• Criticism: William A. Henry III of The Boston Globe, for critical writing about television.
• Editorial Writing: Robert L. Bartley of The Wall Street Journal
• Editorial Cartooning: Don Wright of The Miami News
• Spot News Photography : An unnamed photographer of United Press International, for "Firing Squad in Iran."
• Feature Photography: Erwin H. Hagler of The Dallas Times Herald , for a series on the Western cowboy.

Letters, Drama and Music awards

• Fiction: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• Drama: Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
• History: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
• Biography or Autobiography: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Poetry: Selected Poems by Donald Justice
• General Non-fiction: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (ISBN 0465026567)
• Music: In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici

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• Pulitzer Prizes for 1980