Dayton Literary Peace Prize2010

Other Names: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Runner-Up
62 Works 75,794 Books 3,660 Reviews 4.2
From the Dayton Literary Awards Site:
Celebrating the power of literature to promote peace and nonviolence, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded show more in the United States. It was founded in 2006 as an outgrowth of the Dayton Peace Prize, which commemorates the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords ending the war in Bosnia. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (40), Runner-Up (2), Finalist (210), Longlist (234), No Stage (1)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2024 (12), 2023 (12), 2022 (12), 2021 (12), 2020 (12), 2019 (12), 2018 (12), 2017 (12), 2016 (12), 2015 (12), 2014 (12), 2013 (12), 2012 (11), 2011 (66), 2010 (62), 2009 (55), 2008 (29), 2007 (38), 2006 (51)
Announced:
September 2024: Runner-Up2024 Recent
September 2024: Winner2024 Recent
August 2024: Finalist2024 Recent

Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
Postcards from the Grave by Emir SuljagicAmbassador Robert Frowick Award2010
The Book of Night Women by Marlon JamesFiction2010
Zeitoun by Dave EggersNonfiction2010

Finalist 10

WorkCategoryYear
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction2010
In the Valley of Mist: Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World by Justine HardyNonfiction2010
The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe2010
A Postcard From the Volcano by Lucy Beckett2010
A Good Fall: Stories by Ha Jin2010
The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim2010
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson2010
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman2010
Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. by Roger Thurow2010
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese2010

Longlist 49

WorkCategoryYear
L'Inde en héritage by Abha DawesarFiction2010
A Journey, a Reckoning, and a Miracle by K.J. FraserFiction2010
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina GappahFiction2010
The Missing by Tim GautreauxFiction2010
The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa HajiFiction2010
31 Hours by Masha HamiltonFiction2010
The Unit by Ninni HolmqvistFiction2010
Blame by Michelle HunevenFiction2010
German for Travelers: A Novel in 95 Lessons by Norah LabinerFiction2010
Requiem of the Human Soul by Jeremy R. LentFiction2010
The Glass Room by Simon MawerFiction2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannFiction2010
Ruins by Achy ObejasFiction2010
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne PhillipsFiction2010
The Help by Kathryn StockettFiction2010
A Short History of Women by Kate WalbertFiction2010
Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis by Götz AlyNonfiction2010
Us and Them: Muslim - Christian Relations and Cultural Harmony in Australia by Abe AtaNonfiction2010
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia BayNonfiction2010
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas BuergenthalNonfiction2010
Will War Ever End?: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Century by Paul K ChappellNonfiction2010
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail CollinsNonfiction2010
Norman Corwin's One World Flight: The Lost Journal of Radio's Greatest Writer by Norman CorwinNonfiction2010
The Good Soldiers by David FinkelNonfiction2010
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran FoerNonfiction2010
Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-lurieNonfiction2010
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life by Lori D. GinzbergNonfiction2010
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Richard N. HaassNonfiction2010
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean HatzfeldNonfiction2010
No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World by Michael HendersonNonfiction2010
Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive by Chris HerlingerNonfiction2010
Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East by Martin IndykNonfiction2010
A Woman among Warlords : The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalaï JoyaNonfiction2010
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari MaathaiNonfiction2010
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Jarvis Jay MastersNonfiction2010
Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade by George PackerNonfiction2010
On Kindness by Adam PhillipsNonfiction2010
A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel by Ronald RadoshNonfiction2010
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. RichNonfiction2010
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati RoyNonfiction2010
My Hope for Peace by Jehan SadatNonfiction2010
Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History by Danzy SennaNonfiction2010
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President by Ellen Johnson SirleafNonfiction2010
Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors by Steven J. TaylorNonfiction2010
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-CanninoNonfiction2010
Where am I Wearing? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes by Kelsey TimmermanNonfiction2010
Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene VilarNonfiction2010
Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought by James G. WorkmanNonfiction2010
The Evolution of God by Robert WrightNonfiction2010

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From the Dayton Literary Awards Site:
Celebrating the power of literature to promote peace and nonviolence, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. It was founded in 2006 as an outgrowth of the Dayton Peace Prize, which commemorates the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords ending the war in Bosnia. (English, Member-written)
http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/ (English, Member-written)

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