[OPLINLIST] Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2019 - Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

[Gregor, Paul]

With apologies for re-posting, yesterdays posting had "2017" in the subject line which I didn't catch.


Please see the following release and information which has been posted on behalf of Helen Prichard and the Library Committee of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Committee is pleased to announce that  N. Scott Momaday is the 2019 winner of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.
A Kiowa Indian, Navarre Scott Momaday was born in 1934 and grew up on Southwestern Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo reservations, where his parents were teachers. His first novel, House Made of Dawn (1968), which tells the story of a young man returning to his Kiowa pueblo after a stint in the U.S. Army, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has been widely credited with spearheading the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream.
"N. Scott Momaday's body of work illustrates the power of ritual, imagination, and storytelling to mediate between cultures, produce peace through intercultural understanding, and heal individuals damaged by conflict," said Sharon Rab, the founder and chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. "By honoring and safeguarding the storytelling traditions of our nation's indigenous communities, his writings at the same time affirm the value of a multicultural society."
Finalists for this year's Peace Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction will be announced on August 13, 2019.
This year's awards ceremony will be held on November 3 2019, at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio.
For more about N. Scott Momaday Please see:  https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2019-holbrooke.htm
(with crosspostings to: Oplinlist, Libref-l, Fiction-l)

Paul Gregor
Head Librarian
Greene County Public Library - Jamestown
Jamestown, Ohio
(937) 736-7910
pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us<mailto:pgregor at gcpl.lib.oh.us>


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