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[]
2021[9]
- Fiction winner: Alexander Starritt, We Germans
- Fiction runner-up: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
- Non-Fiction winner: Ariana Neumann, When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Jordan Ritter Conn, The Road to Raqqa
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award:
2020[10]
- Fiction winner: Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew (Simon & Schuster)
- Fiction runner-up: Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Ballantine)
- Non-Fiction winner: Chanel Miller, Know My Name (Viking)
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Jennifer Eberhardt, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Penguin)
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Margaret Atwood
2019[11]
- Fiction winner: ,
- Fiction runner-up: Richard Powers, The Overstory
- Non-Fiction winner: Eli Saslow,
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Wil Haygood,
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: N. Scott Momaday
2018[12]
- Fiction winner: Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
- Fiction runner-up: Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
- Non-Fiction winner: Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
- Non-Fiction runner-up: , Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: John Irving
2017[13]
- Fiction winner: Patricia Engel, The Veins of the Ocean
- Fiction runner-up: Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
- Non-Fiction winner: David Wood, What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Ben Rawlence, City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Colm Tóibín
2016[14]
- 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[15]
2015[16]
- Fiction winner: Josh Weil, 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[17]
- Fiction winner: Bob Shacochis,
- 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: , Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Louise Erdrich[18]
2013[19]
- 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[20]
2012[21]
- 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: , Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Tim O'Brien[22]
2011[23]
- 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[24]
- 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[25]
- 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[26]
- 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[27]
2007[28]
- Fiction winner: Brad Kessler, Birds in Fall[29]
- Fiction runner-up: Lisa Fugard, Skinner's Drift[30]
- Non-Fiction winner: Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea[31]
- 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[32]
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Elie Wiesel[33]
2006[34]
- Fiction winner: Francine Prose, A Changed Man[35]
- Fiction runner-up: , The Discontinuity of Small Things[36]
- Non-Fiction winner: Stephen Walker, Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima[37]
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves[38]
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Studs Terkel[39]
References[]
- ^ a b Dayton Literary Peace Prize - About the Award
- ^ Studs Terkel to receive first Dayton literary prize
- ^ a b King biographer latest Literary Peace Prize honoree
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Edwin C. Moses
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2007 Ceremony
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2008 Winners
- ^ a b Dayton Literary Peace Prize - An International Award
- ^ a b Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2009 Finalists
- ^ "2020 & 2021 Awards – Dayton Literary Peace Prize". Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "2020 Winners Press Release". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
- ^ "Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing the 2019 Award Winners and Runners-up". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "2018 winners". Dayton Peace Prize. September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
- ^ "2017 winners". Dayton Peace Prize. October 3, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
- ^ "2016 winners". Dayton Peace Prize. October 11, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize to Honor Marilynne Robinson with Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
- ^ "2015 winners". Dayton Peace Prize. September 30, 2015. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- ^ "2014 winners". Dayton Peace Prize. September 24, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
- ^ Lisa Cornwell (August 17, 2014). "www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_26353256/writer-louise-erdrich-wins-ohio-peace-prize". TwinCities.com. Associated Press. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
- ^ Meredith Moss (September 24, 2013). "2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
- ^ "Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2013". Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ Julie Bosman (September 30, 2012). "Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
- ^ "Vietnam veteran, author Tim O'Brien wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize award". Washington Post. August 1, 2012. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019.
- ^ Dayton Literary Prize, By JULIE BOSMAN, The New York Times, September 25, 2011.
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2010 Winners
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2009 Winners
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Taylor Branch, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2007 Award Winners
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Brad Kessler, 2007 Fiction Winner
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Lisa Fugard, 2007 Fiction Runner-Up
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Mark Kurlansky, 2007 Nonfiction Winner
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007 Nonfiction Runners-Up
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Elie Wiesel, 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2006 Award Winners
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Francine Prose, 2006 Fiction Winner
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Kevin Haworth, 2006 Fiction Runner-Up
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Stephen Walker, 2006 Nonfiction Winner
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Adam Hochschild, 2006 Nonfiction Runner-Up
- ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Studs Terkel, 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award
External links[]
- International literary awards
- Awards established in 2006
- Peace awards
- American non-fiction literary awards
- American fiction awards
- Culture of Dayton, Ohio
- 2006 establishments in Ohio