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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h2><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Please see the following information which has been posted on behalf of Helen Pritchard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2><h2><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></strong></h2><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Paul Gregor</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Head Librarian</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jamestown Community Branch</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Greene County Public Library</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>937.675.4411 ex. 5301</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:pgregor@gcpl.lib.oh.us">pgregor@gcpl.lib.oh.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'>(cross postings to Publib-L, Libref-L and Oplinlist)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></h2><h2><strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;font-weight:normal'>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></strong></h2><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Tim O’Brien is the Winner of the 2012 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award Winner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“For forty years, Tim O'Brien has drawn on his experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War to create a virtuosic body of work that includes <i>The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods</i>, and <i>Going After Cacciato”</i>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2012-holbrooke.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2012-holbrooke.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Mr. O’Brien is the author of:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home<em> </em></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(1973).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Northern Lights </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(1975).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Going After Cacciato </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(1979) National Book Award in Fiction.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Things They Carried </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(1990) National Magazine Award, also named one of the 20 best books of the last quarter century by the New York Times.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tomcat in Love </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(1998).<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>July, July </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>(2002).<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In the Lake of the Woods</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> (1994) named the best novel of 1994 by Time Magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <u><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The 2012<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner for fiction</span></u><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><i>The Sojourn</i></b> by Andrew Krivak<o:p></o:p></p><p>“In <a href="http://andrewkrivak.com/books/the-sojourn" target="_blank"><i>The Sojourn</i></a> (Bellevue Literary Press), first-time novelist Andrew Krivak tells the story of Jozef Vinich who returns with his father from a 19th-century Colorado mining town to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary only to be uprooted again by World War I. Nominated for a National Book Award, the novel recreates a time when Czechs, Slovaks, Austrians, Hungarians, and Germans fought on the same side in the most brutal war to date, and evokes the longing for the American dream amid the unfolding tragedy in Europe”. <o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The 2012<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner for nonfiction<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p><b><i>To End All Wars</i></b> by Adam Hochschild<o:p></o:p></p><p>“In <a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/bookdetails?isbn=9780618758289" target="_blank"><i>To End All Wars</i></a> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Adam Hochschild brings World War I to life as never before by focusing on the long-ignored critics of the conflict, which is now considered one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage. In a suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Hochschild captures the riveting accounts of Britain's war protesters, many of whom were intimately connected to their enemy hawks and the war's generals and heroes. With hundreds of military cemeteries now filled with the millions who died in "the war to end all wars," the book asks if we can ever avoid repeating history. In The New York Times Book Review, Christopher Hitchens wrote, "This is a book to make one feel deeply and painfully, and also to think hard." <o:p></o:p></p><p><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></p><p><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The 2012 runners-up are: <o:p></o:p></span></u></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fiction: <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/209856/nanjing-requiem-by-ha-jin" target="_blank"><i>Nanjing Requiem</i></a> by Ha Jin (Pantheon Books): The award-winning author of <i>Waiting</i> and <i>War Trash</i> returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nonfiction: <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Day-of-Honey/Annia-Ciezadlo/9781416583943" target="_blank"><i>Day of Honey</i></a> by Annia Ciezadlo (Free Press): <i>Day of Honey</i> is a beautifully written, fiercely intelligent memoir exploring the heightened resonance of cooking in war-torn Baghdad and Beirut. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>For further information on the award, lifetime achievement winners, nominees, and event festivities please see:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>