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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Colm Tóibín is the 2017 winner of the
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Finalists for this year’s Peace Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction will be announced on September 13, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This year’s awards ceremony will be held at 5PM on November 5 2017, at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing
Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For more about Colm Tóibín Please see:
<a href="http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2017-holbrooke.htm">http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2017-holbrooke.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">Jamestown, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"">(937) 736-7910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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