Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize , which has been awarded since 2006, is the only annual literary prize in the US that is awarded to works that promote peace. Awards are given for fiction and non-fiction published in the previous year that help the reader develop a better understanding of other people, cultures, beliefs, or political views. The winner in each category will receive a cash prize of $ 10,000.

The prize is awarded in memory of the Dayton Agreement , which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995 after three and a half years . In 2011, the Lifetime Achievement Award was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award to commemorate Richard Holbrooke who was the U.S. Special Envoy for the Balkans and was instrumental in the Dayton Accords. The prize money for this award is also USD 10,000.

Award winners

2006

• Fiction category winners: Francine Prose , A Changed Man
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Kevin Haworth , The Discontinuity of Small Things
• Non-fiction category winner: Stephen Walker , Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Adam Hochschild , Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
• Lifetime achievement award: Studs Terkel

2007

• Fiction category winners: Brad Kessler , Birds in Fall
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Lisa Fugard , Skinner's Drift
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Mark Kurlansky , Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: 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

2008

• Fiction category winners: Junot Díaz , The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Daniel Alarcón , Lost City Radio
• Non-fiction category winners: Edwidge Danticat , Brother, I'm Dying
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Cullen Murphy , Are We Rome?
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Taylor Branch

2009

• Winner in the fiction category: Richard Bausch , Peace
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Uwem Akpan , Say You're One of Them
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Benjamin Skinner , A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Thomas Friedman , Hot, Flat, and Crowded
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

2010

• Fiction category winner: Marlon James , The Book of Night Women
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , The Thing Around Your Neck
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Dave Eggers , Zeitoun
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Justine Hardy , In the Valley of Mist
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Geraldine Brooks

2011

• Fiction category winners: Chang-Rae Lee , The Surrendered
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Maaza Mengiste , Beneath the Lion's Gaze
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Wilbert Rideau , In the Place of Justice
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Isabel Wilkerson , The Warmth of Other Suns
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Barbara Kingsolver
• Science Award: Nigel Young , The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace

2012

• Winner in the fiction category: Andrew Krivak , The Sojourn
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Ha Jin , Nanjing Requiem
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Adam Hochschild , To End All Wars
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Annia Ciezadlo , Day of Honey
• Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award: Tim O'Brien

2013

• Fiction category winners: Adam Johnson , The Orphan Master's Son
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Ben Fountain , Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
• Non-fiction category winner: Andrew Solomon , Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity . German title: Far from the trunk: When children are very different from their parents
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: 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

2014

• Winner in the fiction category: Bob Shacochis , The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Margaret Wrinkle , Wash
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Karima Bennoune , Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Jo Roberts , Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
• Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: Louise Erdrich

2015

• Fiction category winner: Josh Weil , The Great Glass Sea
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Anthony Doerr , All the Light We Cannot See
• Non-fiction category winner: Bryan Stevenson , Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Jeff Hobbs , The Short And Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
• Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: Gloria Steinem

2016

• Winner in the fiction category: Viet Thanh Nguyen , The Sympathizer
• Runner-up in the fiction category: James Hannaham , Delicious Foods
• Non-fiction category winners: Susan Southard , Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
• Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: Marilynne Robinson

2017

• Winner in the fiction category: Patricia Engel , The Veins of the Ocean
• Second place in the fiction category: Yaa Gyasi , Homegoing
• Winner in the non-fiction category: David Wood , What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Ben Rawlence , City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
• Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: Colm Tóibín

2018

• Winner in the fiction category: Hala Alyan , Salt Houses
• Runner-up in the fiction category: Min Jin Lee , Pachinko
• Winner in the non-fiction category: Ta-Nehisi Coates , We Were Eight Years in Power
• Runner-up in the non-fiction category: Michelle Kuo , Reading with Patrick
• Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: John Irving

Web links

• Dayton Literary Peace Prize - An International Award

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dayton Literary Peace Prize - About the Award
2. ^ Studs Terkel to receive the first Dayton literary prize
3. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2006 Award Winners
4. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Francine Prose, 2006 Fiction Winner
5. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Kevin Haworth, 2006 Fiction Runner-Up
6. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Stephen Walker, 2006 Nonfiction Winner
7. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Adam Hochschild, 2006 Nonfiction Runner-Up
8. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Studs Terkel, 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award
9. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2007 Award Winners
10. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Brad Kessler, 2007 Fiction Winner
11. ↑ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Lisa Fugard, 2007 Fiction Runner-Up
12. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Mark Kurlansky, 2007 Nonfiction Winner
13. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007 Nonfiction Runners-Up
14. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Elie Wiesel, 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award
15. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced
16. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Taylor Branch, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
17. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2009 Winners
18. ^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2010 Winners
19. ↑ Dayton Literary Prize , By JULIE BOSMAN, New York Times, Sept 25, 2011.
20. ↑ Julie Bosman: Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize . In: New York Times . September 30, 2012. Retrieved September 30, 3012.
21. ↑ Vietnam veteran, author Tim O'Brien wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize award . In: Washington Post , August 1, 2012. 
22. ↑ Meredith Moss: 2013 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners announced . In: Dayton Daily News . September 24, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
23. ^ Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2013 . Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Retrieved August 13, 2013.