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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">THE SYMPATHIZER</span></u></i></b><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> BY VIET THANH NGUYEN
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">AND
<i>NAGASAKI</i> BY SUSAN SOUTHARD </span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NAMED WINNERS OF 2016 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Delicious Foods
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">by James Hannaham and<i> </i></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Find Me Unafraid</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> by Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner Odede</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:red">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">named runners-up<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A pair of books reflecting on the aftermath of two 20<sup>th</sup>-century conflicts –
<i>The Sympathizer</i> by Vietnamese-American Viet Thanh Nguyen and <i>Nagasaki</i> by Susan Southard – today were named the winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Delicious Foods</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, James Hannaham's novel of addiction and redemption, was named runner-up for fiction, while
<i>Find Me Unafraid</i>, the autobiographical love story of two social activists, an African man and an American woman, was named the nonfiction runner-up.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"This year's winners remind us that the effects of war reverberate many years and often many generations after treaties are signed,"</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">said Sharon Rab, founder and co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. "Together, these stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen and Susan Southard offer cautionary tales but also guideposts to lead us toward a greater
understanding of those who are originally seen as enemies."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nguyen's profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel
</span><a href="http://www.groveatlantic.com/?title=The+Sympathizer"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Sympathizer</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (Grove Atlantic) introduces one of the most compelling narrators of recent fiction: a double
agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War whose ideals necessitate the betrayal of the people closest to him. Both gripping spy yarn and astute exploration of extreme politics, <i>The Sympathizer</i> examines the Vietnam War's legacy in literature, film, and
the wars we fight today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Southard, a narrative journalist, spent over a decade interviewing survivors, historians, physicians, psychologists, and archivists for
</span><a href="http://www.penguin.com/book/nagasaki-by-susan-southard/9780698195554"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (Penguin Random House), a powerful and unflinching account
of the enduring impact of nuclear war told through the stories of those who survived. The book takes readers from the morning the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki to the modern day, offering an intimate, immediate account that promises to shape future
discussions of one of the most controversial wartime acts in history.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In </span><a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-hannaham/delicious-foods/9780316284943/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Delicious Foods</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (Little,
Brown and Company), a widow under the sway of an overpowering addiction struggles to reunite with her young son while held captive on a mysterious farm. 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">In </span><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062292858/find-me-unafraid"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
(Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins), two social activists, Kenyan native Odede and Colorado native Posner O interweave their own love story around the tale of 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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Organizers previously announced that</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">novelist and essayist </span><a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2016-holbrooke.htm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marilynne Robinson</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (<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"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">About the Dayton Literary Peace Prize<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Launched in 2006, it has already established itself as one of the
world’s most prestigious literary honors, and is the only literary peace prize awarded in the United States. As an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards a $10,000 cash prize each year to one fiction and one nonfiction author
whose work advances peace as a solution to conflict, and leads readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view. Additionally, the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award is bestowed upon a
writer whose body of work reflects the Prize's mission; previous honorees include Louise Erdrich, Wendell Berry, Taylor Branch, Geraldine Brooks, Barbara Kingsolver, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Tim O'Brien, Gloria Steinem, Studs Terkel, and Elie Wiesel.<i>
</i>For more information visit the Dayton Literary Peace Prize media center at </span>
<a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/press.htm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/press.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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