Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual United States literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006.^[1] Awards are given for adult fiction and non-fiction books published at some point within the immediate past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other peoples, cultures, religions, and political views, with the winner in each category receiving a cash prize of $10,000.^[1] The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War.^[2] In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium.

In 2008, Martin Luther King, Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award,^[3] which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.^[4] The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28, 2008.^[3] Nick Clooney, who hosted the ceremony in 2007,^[5] again served as the evening's host in 2008^[6] and 2009.^[7]

The 2009 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on November 8, 2009,^[7] at which married authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.^[8]

Recipients

2016 ^[9]

• Fiction winner: Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
• Fiction runner-up: James Hannaham, Delicious Foods
• Non-Fiction winner: Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Marilynne Robinson^[10]

2015 ^[11]

• Fiction winner: Josh Weidl, The Great Glass Sea
• Fiction runner-up: Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
• Non-Fiction winner: Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Jeff Hobbs, The Short And Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Gloria Steinem

2014 ^[12]

• Fiction winner: Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
• Fiction runner-up: Margaret Wrinkle, Wash
• Non-Fiction winner: Karima Bennoune, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Jo Roberts, Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Louise Erdrich^[13]

2013 ^[14]

• Fiction winner: Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
• Fiction runner-up: Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
• Non-Fiction winner: Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Gilbert King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Wendell Berry^[15]

2012 ^[16]

• Fiction winner: Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn
• Fiction runner-up: Ha Jin, Nanjing Requiem
• Non-Fiction winner: Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Annia Ciezadlo, Day of Honey
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Tim O'Brien^[17]

2011^[18]

• Fiction winner: Chang-rae Lee, The Surrendered
• Fiction runner-up: Maaza Mengiste, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
• Non-Fiction winner: Wilbert Rideau, In the Place of Justice
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Barbara Kingsolver
• Scholarship Award: Nigel Young, Ed. for The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

2010^[19]

• Fiction winner: Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
• Fiction runner-up: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
• Non-Fiction winner: Dave Eggers, Zeitoun
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Justine Hardy, In the Valley of Mist
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Geraldine Brooks

2009^[20]

• Fiction winner: Richard Bausch, Peace
• Fiction runner-up: Uwem Akpan, Say You're One of Them
• Non-Fiction winner: Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn^[8]

2008^[21]

• Fiction winner: Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Fiction runner-up: Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio
• Non-Fiction winner: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome?
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Taylor Branch^[22]

2007^[23]

• Fiction winner: Brad Kessler, Birds in Fall^[24]
• Fiction runner-up: Lisa Fugard, Skinner's Drift^[25]
• Non-Fiction winner: Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea^[26]
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time^[27]
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Elie Wiesel^[28]

2006^[29]

• Fiction winner: Francine Prose, A Changed Man^[30]
• Fiction runner-up: Kevin Haworth, The Discontinuity of Small Things^[31]
• Non-Fiction winner: Stephen Walker, Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima^[32]
• Non-Fiction runner-up: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves^[33]
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Studs Terkel^[34]

References

External links

• Dayton Literary Peace Prize - An International Award