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