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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Recognizing the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction.
</span>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 November 3rd.
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<p class="MsoNormal">N. Scott Momaday, whose novels have been instrumental in awakening Americans’ eyes to the living conditions and struggles of our native populations, will receive the 2019 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Dayton Literary Peace Prize<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">2019 Finalists<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Fiction</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Insurrecto</i> by Gina Apostal <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sadness is a White Bird</i> by Moriel Rothamn Zecher<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Overstory</i> by Richard Powers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>There There</i> by Tommy Orange<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>What We Owe</i> by Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>White Chrysanthemum</i> by Mary Lynn Bracht<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Nonfiction</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Educated</i> by Tara Westover<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Frederick Douglas </i>by David Blight<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>I Should Have Honor </i>by Khalida Brohi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Rising Out of Hatred</i> by Eli Saslow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Sun Does Shine</i> by Anthony Hinton with Laura Hardin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Tigerland</i> by Wil Haygood<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the link for the complete press release which provides complete information, short book synopsis etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2019-finalists-press_release.htm">https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2019-finalists-press_release.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">A winner and runner-up in fiction and nonfiction will be announced on September 17. Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium and runners-up receive $5,000. 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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Gregor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Head Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jamestown Community Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jamestown, Ohio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(937) 736-7910<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Crosspostings: publib, libref-l, Oplin list, fiction-l<o:p></o:p></p>
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