The 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners have been announced. Congratulations to these authors! Recognizing the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction. Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.

  *   Fiction Winner:  Geraldine Brooks for Horse
  *   Fiction Runner-up:  Lily Brooks-Dalton for The Light Pirate
  *   Nonfiction Winner:  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa for His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and Struggle for Racial Justice
  *   Nonfiction Runner-up:  Adam Hochschild for American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Previously, Sandra Cisneros has been named to receive this year's Ambassador Richard C.
Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

Please see: https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/award-winners/ for more information about this year's winners
Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Library Consortium

Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Jamestown Community Library
Jamestown, Ohio 45335


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