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<h2><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please see the following release and 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE ANNOUNCES 2016 FINALISTS IN FICTION & NONFICTION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Shortlist includes
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Between the World and Me<i> by Ta-Nehisi Coates,
</i>The Sympathizer<i> by Viet Thanh Nguyen, </i>Nagasaki<i> by Susan Southard,</i> A Little Life<i> by Hanya Yanagihara;
<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">winners to be honored at gala ceremony on November 20<sup>th</sup><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dayton, OH (September 14, 2016)</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> – Recognizing the power of literature
to promote peace and reconciliation, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">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. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, social justice, and global understanding. This year's winners will be honored at a gala ceremony hosted by award-winning journalist Nick Clooney in Dayton on November
20<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Organizers announced in August that novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson (<i>Housekeeping, Gilead</i>) will be the recipient of the 2016 Richard
C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named in honor of the celebrated U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The full list of finalists can be found below and at:
<a href="http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/"><span style="color:windowtext">www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">"Many of this year’s finalists explore the contradictory strength and fragility of the family bond, and the threat that external forces such as poverty,
war, and prejudice can place on that bond," said Sharon Rab, co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. "Through these narratives we explore the sources of conflict within the family but also what our immediate relationships can teach us about
healing and reconciliation in the larger world."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">A Little Life</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> by Hanya Yanagihara</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">:
Four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition — seek fame and fortune in New York city in this hymn to brotherly bonds. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about
the families we are born into and those that we make for ourselves. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Delicious Foods</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> by James Hannaham</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">:<b>
</b></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Held captive on a mysterious farm and under the sway of an overpowering addiction, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son. Hannaham's daring and shape-shifting prose infuses
his characters with grace and humor while wrestling with timeless questions of forgiveness, redemption, and the will to survive.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Green on Blue</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> by Elliot Ackerman</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">:
A young Afghan orphan is forced to join a US-funded militia in order to save his brother, who is hospitalized after an attack on their village, in this morally complex debut novel about the harrowing, intractable nature of war and the sacrifices we make for
love. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Orhan’s Inheritance
</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">by Aline Ohanesian</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">: Drawing on
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">her own family history, Ohanesian pulls back the curtain on a devastating chapter of the Armenian Holocaust, moving between the 1990s and the 1915 Ottoman Empire in this remarkable debut
novel about war and recovery, crimes and reparations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">by Viet Thanh Nguyen</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">: This profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel tells
the story of a man of two minds whose lofty ideals necessitate his betrayal of the people closest to him. Both gripping spy yarn and astute exploration of extreme politics, <i>The Sympathizer</i> examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film,
and the wars we fight today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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During the final dark days of the War in Iraq, newly minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles with the preparations for withdrawal from the country, especially the alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</i>Ta-Nehisi Coates</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">: Masterfully weaving together lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally-charged reportage, Coates shares the story of his awakening
to the truth about history and his place in the world, in the process<i> </i>mapping a winding path from fear and confusion to a full and honest understanding of this country, this world, and how we can all get free.<span style="color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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An African man and an American woman share their love story and recount their efforts to empower young people – including founding the first tuition-free school for girls – in Odede's hometown of Kibera, the largest slum in Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">by Susan Southard</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">: Narrative journalist Southard spent over a decade interviewing survivors,
historians, physicians, psychologists, and archivists to take readers from the morning the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki to the modern-day city, offering an intimate, immediate account of one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#0E0E0E">Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
by Wil Haygood</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">: Using the framework of the contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Haygood creates a provocative
look at Marshall’s life as well as the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped the early civil rights movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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After learning that his father, an accomplished but distant aboriginal Canadian, has cancer, his son spends a year reconnecting with him. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and
a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This dramatic, never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved WWII Texas internment camp reveals the war-time hysteria against the Japanese and Germans in America, the secrets of FDR’s tactics to rescue high-profile POWs in Germany and Japan, and how the
definition of American citizenship changed under the pressure of war.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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