[OPLINLIST] Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists Announced

[Gregor, Paul]

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.
Thank you.

Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Jamestown Community Branch
Greene County Public Library
937.675.4411 ex. 5301
pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us<mailto:pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us>

DLPP FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
By Laura Dempsey<mailto:ldempsey at DaytonDailyNews.com>

Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

DAYTON - The Dayton Literary Peace Prize selection committee has announce its finalists for 2008's prize, the only such kind in the country.

The nominees are:

Fiction

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

"Coal Black Horse" by Robert Olmstead

"Lost City Radio" by Daniel Alarcon

"The Ocean in the Closet" by Yoko Taniguchi

"Song for Night" by Chris Abani

Nonfiction

"Acts of Faith" by Eboo Patel

"Are We Rome?" by Cullen Murphy

"Break Through" by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus

"Brother, I Am Dying" by Edwidge Danticat

"Fragile Edge" by Julia Whitty

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize was inaugurated in 2006 to recognize the power of writing to promote peace. Awards in both fiction and nonfiction categories carry a $10,000 cash prize.

http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/

The winners will be honored at a Schuster Center gala on Sept. 28, 2008.----------

Recent News Stories:
 Good things are happening in regards to the announcement of the DLPP finalists
The Dayton Daily News had a story on Sunday, there was a short notice in Saturdays NYT's, The Christian Science Monitor and Los Angeles Times had longer articles.

 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/junot_diaz/index.html


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/08/dayton-looks-to.html


http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2008/08/12/the-hard-work-of-peace/


http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/living/2008/08/06/ddn080608peaceprizeweb.html




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