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Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Award Winners
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only U.S. based literary award created to recognize the impact literature has on the spread of peace. It began in 2006, but was inspired by the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. According to the DLPP Foundation, works of adult fiction and nonfiction can be nominated for “increasing understanding between and among people as individuals or within and between families, communities, nations, ethnic groups, cultures and religions.”
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The sympathizer
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. The Sympathizer follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life on 1975 Los Angeles.
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Nagasaki : life after nuclear war
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Susan Southard
Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a riveting narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional and social challenges of post-atomic life.
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Delicious foods : a novel
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James Hannaham
A young widow with an addiction is lured away to a remote farm by a shady company called Delicious Foods, where she is held captive and forced into hard labor while she struggles to become reunited with her young son.
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2016 Nonfiction Runner-up
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Find Me Unafraid : Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
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Kennedy Odede
An American volunteer and a former African street youth recount their romantic relationship, his pursuit of a college education and their founding of the first tuition-free school for underprivileged girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Distinguished Achievement
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*The Holbrooke Award honors an individual for a lifetime of peaceful activism through the written and spoken word.
This is only Marilynne Robinson's most recent work, Please check the library catalog for additional titles.
The givenness of things : essays
by Marilynne Robinson
In a collection of essays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations. Notes.
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The great glass sea : a novel
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Josh Weil
Fiction Winner
Two twins, inseparable since childhood, find themselves on opposite sides of opposing ideologies in a dystopian world where they labor together in a sea of glass lit by space mirrors that keep the citizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight.
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All the light we cannot see : a novel
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Anthony Doerr
Fiction Runner-up
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
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Bryan Stevenson
Nonfiction Winner
The executive director of a social advocacy group that has helped relieve condemned prisoners explains why justice and mercy must go hand-in-hand through the story of Walter McMillian, a man condemned to death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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