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Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2010 Finalists and Lifetime Achievement Honoree
Winners to be honored at gala Dayton ceremony on November 7th
Celebrating the power of literature to promote peace, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation has announced the twelve finalists for the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction.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, nonviolent conflict resolution, and global understanding.
The shortlist includes works by best-selling authors (Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Stones Into Schoools by Greg Mortenson), first-time novelists (The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim), and Booker Prize-winning authors (The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe)
The 2010 finalists also explore a diverse range of challenging issues ranging from cultural dislocation (A Good Fall by Ha Jin) to famine (Enough: Why the World’s Poor Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman) to the impact of war crimes and mass murder (Tears in the Darkness by Michael and Elizabeth Norman, A Postcard from the Volcano by Lucy Beckett) and are set in locations around the world, including Nigeria (The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Adiche), Jamaica (The Book of Night Women by Marlon James), Kashmir (In the Valleyof the Mist by Justine Hardy), and Ethiopia (Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese).
The full list of finalists can be found at: www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org.
A winner and runner-up in fiction and nonfiction will be announced on September 22nd. Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium and runners-up receive $1,000.00. They will be honored at a gala ceremony hosted by award-winning journalist Nick Clooney in Dayton on Sunday, November 7th.
The committee previously announced that historical novelist Geraldine Brooks (March, Year of Wonders, People of the Book) will be the recipient of the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, a distinction she shares with Studs Terkel (2006), Elie Wiesel (2007), Taylor Branch (2008), and Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2009).
"This year’s finalists help readers to see pressing global issues through the eyes of individuals whose lives are immediately affected by the larger forces around them," said Sharon Rab, chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. “While challenging us to confront difficult and painful truths, each work, in its own way, is ultimately hopeful, offering the reader powerful insight into the resilience of the human spirit.”