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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Recognizing the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction.
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">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, justice, and global understanding. This year's winners will be honored at a gala ceremony in Dayton on October 28th.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Writer John Irving, whose novels champion outsiders and often explore the bigotry, intolerance, and hatred directed at sexual minorities, will receive
the 2018 The <a href="http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/holbrooke.htm"><span style="color:blue">Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award</span></a>, named in honor of the noted U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the Dayton Peace
Accords. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 2018<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549017/exit-west-by-mohsin-hamid/9780735212206/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Exit
West</span></i></a> by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: An astonishingly timely love story that brilliantly imagines the forces that transform ordinary people into refugees and the impossible choices that follow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/go-went-gone/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Go, Went, Gone</span></i></a> by Jenny Erpenbeck
(New Directions)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: A scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a Berlin man who finds he has more in common with his city’s African refugees than he realizes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/min-jin-lee/pachinko-national-book-award-finalist/9781455563937/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Pachinko</span></i></a>
by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: Exiled from a homeland they never knew, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destinies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.halaalyan.com/salt-houses/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Salt Houses</span></i></a> by Hala Alyan (Houghton,
Mifflin, Harcourt)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: A heartbreaking story that follows three generations of a Palestinian family and asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sing-Unburied-Sing/Jesmyn-Ward/9781501126079" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Sing,
Unburied, Sing</span></i></a> by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: A family makes the trip from their Gulf Coast town to the Mississippi State Penitentiary, testing the strength of their emotional bonds and the pull of a collective
history.The 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize nonfiction finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/jaroslav-kalfar/spaceman-of-bohemia/9780316273404/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Spaceman
of Bohemia</span></i></a> by Jaroslav Kalfar (Little, Brown)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: Raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut.
A dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him the chance at heroism he's always dreamed of -- and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 2018<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize non-fiction finalists are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250092489" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Enduring Vietnam</span></i></a> by James Wright
(St. Martin’s Press)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: A recounting of the experiences of the young Americans who fought in Vietnam and of the families who mourned those who did not return.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/benjamin-rachlin/ghost-of-the-innocent-man/9780316311489/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Ghost
of the Innocent Man</span></i></a> by Benjamin Rachlin (Little, Brown)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: This gripping account of one man's long road to freedom provides a picture of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful reform,
forever altering how we understand our criminal justice system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/lolas-house" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Lolas’ House</span></i></a> by M. Erdina
Galang (Northwestern U. Press)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: The stories of sixteen Filipino “comfort women” are told in unprecedented detail in what is not only testimony and documentation, but a book of witness, of survival, and of the female
body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246274/reading-with-patrick-by-michelle-kuo/9780812987140/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">Reading
with Patrick</span></i></a> by Michelle Kuo (Random House)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of Patrick Browning, a teenaged
student from one of the poorest counties in the U.S., and his remarkable literary and personal awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Newcomers/Helen-Thorpe/9781501159091" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">The Newcomers</span></i></a>
by Helen Thorpe (Scribner)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: Helen Thorpe’s intensive, year-long reporting puts a human face on the U.S. refugee population through an intimate look at the lives of 22 teenagers enrolled in a beginner-level English
Language Acquisition class at South High School in Denver, Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550170/we-were-eight-years-in-power-by-ta-nehisi-coates/9780399590566/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:blue">We
Were Eight Years in Power</span></i></a> by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World PRH)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">: “Biting cultural and political analysis... reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath, and [Coates’s] own evolution
as a writer in eight stunningly incisive essays.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A winner and runner-up in fiction and nonfiction will be announced on September 18. Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium and runners-up receive $2,500.For
more information please see: <a href="http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org" target="_blank">
<span style="color:blue">www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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