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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 2022 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.
<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 20<span style="color:#1F497D">22
</span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are:<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/beasts-of-a-little-land-juhea-kim?variant=39278401912866">Beasts of a Little Land</a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
by Juhea Kim (HarperCollins) An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cloud-Cuckoo-Land/Anthony-Doerr/9781982168438">Cloud Cuckoo Land</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">by Anthony Doerr (Simon & Schuster)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">: A “wildly inventive, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading
experiences” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), a story of dreamers and outsiders whose<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">lives are gloriously intertwined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Infinite-Country/Patricia-Engel/9781982159474">Infinite Country</a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Patricia Engel (Simon & Schuster)</b>: a "profound, beautiful novel" (<i>People</i>) that chronicles the "breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life" (<i>Esquire</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/north_9781647001087/">North</a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Brad Kessler (Abrams)</b>:<i> </i>traces the epic journey of Sahro from her home in Somalia to South America, through Central America to New York City, and finally, her last attempt to cross into safety in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-love-songs-of-web-du-bois-honoree-fanonne-jeffers?variant=39813771132962">The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois</a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (HarperCollins)</b>: This intimate yet sweeping novel, with all the luminescence and force of
<i>Homegoing</i>; <i>Sing, Unburied</i>, and <i>The Water Dancer</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">chronicles the journey of one American family from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611515/what-comes-after-by-joanne-tompkins/">What Comes After</a></span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by JoAnne Tompkins (Penguin Random House)</b>: offers an unforgettable story of loss and anger, but also of kindness and hope, courage and forgiveness. It is a deeply moving account of strangers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">and friends not only helping each other forward after tragedy, but inspiring a new kind of family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The 20<span style="color:#1F497D">22
</span>Dayton Literary Peace Prize non-fiction finalists are:<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/High-Conflict/Amanda-Ripley/9781982128579"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">High Conflict</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Amanda Ripley (Simon & Schuster)</b>:journalist Amanda Ripley investigates how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/clint-smith/how-the-word-is-passed/9780316492935/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How the Word is Passed</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">by Clint Smith (Little, Brown):
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> This compelling <i>#1 New York Times
</i>bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241846/invisible-child-by-andrea-elliott/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Invisible Child</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Andrea Elliott (Penguin Random House)</b> winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, this is the unforgettable story of Dasani Coates, a homeless girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by poverty and racism in an unequal America.</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1155CD"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.workman.com/products/the-last-nomad/paperback"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Last Nomad</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Shugri Said Sahl (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)</b>: A brave, remarkable memoir about an idyllic childhood shattered by the Somali Civil War.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989/the-sum-of-us-by-heather-mcghee/"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Sum of Us</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Heather McGhee (Penguin Random House)</b>: McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs while also sharing the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America.
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374286675/wildland"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Wildland</span></i></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<b>by Evan Osnos (Macmillan)</b>: is the story of a period bounded by two shocks to America’s psyche, two assaults on the country’s sense of itself: the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Previously, Wil Hagood was announced as the 2022 Winner of the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The full press release with more information can be found here:
<a href="https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DLPP-2022-Finalist-Press-Release_.pdf">
https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DLPP-2022-Finalist-Press-Release_.pdf</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Paul Gregor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Head Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jamestown Community Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Crosspostings: publib, libref-l, Oplin list, fiction-l<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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