Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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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
[edit]Fiction
[edit]Nonfiction
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2006 | Stephen Walker | Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima | Winner | [9] |
Adam Hochschild | Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves | Runner-up | [9] | |
2007 | Mark Kurlansky | Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea | Winner | [10][11] |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time | Runner-up | [10][11] | |
2008 | Edwidge Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying | Winner | [12][43] |
Cullen Murphy | Are We Rome | Runner-up | [12] | |
2009 | Benjamin Skinner | A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery | Winner | [14] |
Thomas Friedman | Hot, Flat, and Crowded | Runner-up | [14] | |
Nicholson Baker | Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization | Finalist | [15] | |
Joan Baxter | Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa | Finalist | [15] | |
David Grossman | Writing in the Dark | Finalist | [15] | |
Ariel Sabar | My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Father’s Past | Finalist | [15] | |
Strobe Talbott | The Great Experiment | Finalist | [15] | |
2010 | Dave Eggers | Zeitoun | Winner | [16][17] |
Justine Hardy | In the Valley of Mist | Runner-up | [16] | |
Roger Thurowand Scott Kilman | Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty | Finalist | [18] | |
Greg Mortenson | Stones into Schools | Finalist | [18] | |
Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman | Tears in the Darkness: the Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath | Finalist | [18] | |
Chinua Achebe | The Education of a British-Protected Child | Finalist | [18] | |
2011 | Wilbert Rideau | In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance | Winner | [19][17] |
Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns | Runner-up | [19] | |
Kai Bird | Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978 | Finalist | [20] | |
Conor Grennan | Little Princes | Finalist | [20] | |
Laura Hillenbrand | Unbroken | Finalist | [20] | |
Mac McClelland | For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question | Finalist | [20] | |
2012 | Adam Hochschild | To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 | Winner | [22][23] |
Annia Ciezadlo | Day of Honey | Runner-up | [22][23] | |
Caroline Moorehead | A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France | Finalist | [24] | |
Leymah Gbowee | Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir | Finalist | [24] | |
Karl Marlantes | What It Is Like to Go to War | Finalist | [24] | |
2013 | Andrew Solomon | Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity | Winner | [25] |
Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Runner-up | [25] | |
Katherine Boo | Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Finalist | [26] | |
Carmen Bugan | Burying the Typewriter | Finalist | [26] | |
Blaine Harden | Escape from Camp 14 | Finalist | [26] | |
Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac | Pax Ethnica | Finalist | [26] | |
2014 | Karima Bennoune | Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here | Winner | [28] |
Jo Roberts | Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe | Runner-up | [28] | |
Steve McQuiddy | Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream | Finalist | [29] | |
Katy Butler | Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death | Finalist | [29] | |
Jesmyn Ward | Men We Reaped: A Memoir | Finalist | [29] | |
David Finkel | Thank You for Your Service | Finalist | [29] | |
2015 | Bryan Stevenson | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Winner | [30] |
Jeff Hobbs | The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Runner-up | [30] | |
Elizabeth D. Samet | No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America | Finalist | [31] | |
Lacy Johnson | The Other Side | Finalist | [31] | |
Meline Toumani | There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond | Finalist | [31] | |
Jeff Chang | Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America | Finalist | [31] | |
2016 | Susan Southard | Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War | Winner | [32] |
Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner | Find Me Unafraid | Runner-up | [32] | |
Ta-Nehisi Coates | Between the World and Me | Finalist | [35] | |
Wil Haygood | Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America | Finalist | [35] | |
Wab Kinew | The Reason You Walk | Finalist | [35] | |
Jan Jarboe Russell | The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II | Finalist | [35] | |
2017 | David Wood | What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars | Winner | [36] |
Ben Rawlence | City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp | Runner-up | [36] | |
2018 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Winner | [38][34] |
Michelle Kuo | Reading with Patrick | Runner-up | [38] | |
2019 | Eli Saslow | Rising Out of Hatred | Winner | [39] |
Wil Haygood | Tigerland | Runner-up | [39] | |
Tara Westover | Educated | Finalist | [40] | |
David W. Blight | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | Finalist | [40] | |
Khalida Brohi | I Should Have Honor | Finalist | [40] | |
Anthony Hinton with Lara Love Hardin | The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row | Finalist | [40] | |
2020 | Chanel Miller | Know My Name | Winner | [41][42][43] |
Jennifer Eberhardt | The Beekeeper of Aleppo | Runner-up | [41][42] | |
2021 | Ariana Neumann | When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains | Winner | [45] |
Jordan Ritter Conn | The Road from Raqqa | Runner-up | [45] | |
Toni Jenson | Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land | Finalist | [42] | |
Isabel Wilkerson | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Finalist | [42] | |
Valarie Kaur | See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love | Finalist | [42] | |
Michele Harper | The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir | Finalist | [42] | |
2022 | Clint Smith | How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America | Winner | [46] |
Andrea Elliott | Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City | Runner-up | [46] | |
Amanda Ripley | High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out | Finalist | [46] | |
Shugri Said Salh | The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert: A Memoir | Finalist | [46] | |
Heather McGhee | The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Finalist | [46] | |
Evan Osnos | Wildland: The Making of America's Fury | Finalist | [46] |
Lifetime Achievement Award
[edit]Year | Author | Ref. |
---|---|---|
2006 | Studs Terkel | [9] |
2007 | Elie Wiesel | [10][11] |
2008 | Taylor Branch | [12] |
2009 | Nicholas Kristof | [14][15] |
Sheryl WuDunn | [14][15] |
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
[edit]Year | Author | Ref. |
---|---|---|
2010 | Geraldine Brooks | [16][47] |
2011 | Barbara Kingsolver | [17][48] |
2012 | Tim O'Brien | [49] |
2013 | Wendell Berry | [50] |
2014 | Louise Erdrich | [51][52] |
2015 | Gloria Steinem | [53] |
2016 | Marilynne Robinson | [54] |
2017 | Colm Tóibín | [55] |
2018 | John Irving | [56] |
2019 | N. Scott Momaday | [57][58] |
2020/2021 | Margaret Atwood | [45][59] |
2022 | Wil Haygood | |
2023 | Sandra Cisneros | [60] |
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