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. 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. The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War. 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, which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses. The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28, 2008. Nick Clooney, who hosted the ceremony in 2007, again served as the evening's host in 2008 and 2009.
The 2009 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on November 8, 2009, at which married authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Recipients
2019- Fiction winner: Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde, What We Owe
- 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
- Fiction winner: Hala Alyan, Salt Houses
- Fiction runner-up: Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
- Non-Fiction winner: Ta-Nehisi Coates, '
- Non-Fiction runner-up: Michelle Kuo, Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: John Irving
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
- Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Tim O'Brien
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fiction winner: Brad Kessler, Birds in Fall
- Fiction runner-up: Lisa Fugard, Skinner's Drift
- Non-Fiction winner: Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea
- 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
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Elie Wiesel
- Fiction winner: Francine Prose,