The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual United States literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006.[1] Awards are given for adult fiction and non-fiction books published at some point within the immediate past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other peoples, cultures, religions, and political views, with the winner in each category receiving a cash prize of $10,000.[1] The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War.[2] In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize logo

In 2008, Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award,[3] which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses.[4] The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28, 2008.[3] Nick Clooney, who hosted the ceremony in 2007,[5] again served as the evening's host in 2008[6] and 2009.[7]

The 2009 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on November 8, 2009,[7] at which married authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.[8]

Recipients edit

Fiction edit

Year Author Title Result Ref.
2006 Francine Prose A Changed Man Winner [9]
Kevin Haworth The Discontinuity of Small Things Runner-up [9]
2007 Brad Kessler Birds in Fall Winner [10][11]
Lisa Fugard Skinner's Drift Runner-up [10][11]
2008 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Winner [12]
Daniel Alarcón Lost City Radio Runner-up [12]
2009 Richard Bausch Peace Winner [13][14]
Uwem Akpan Say You're One of Them Runner-up [14]
Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves Finalist [15]
Ma Jian Beijing Coma Finalist [15]
Rachel Kushner Telex from Cuba Finalist [15]
James McBride Song Yet Sung Finalist [15]
2010 Marlon James The Book of Night Women Winner [16][17]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing Around Your Neck Runner-up [16]
Lucy Beckett A Postcard from the Volcano Finalist [18]
Ha Jin A Good Fall Finalist [18]
Abraham Verghese Cutting for Stone Finalist [18]
Eugenia Kim The Calligrapher's Daughter Finalist [18]
2011 Chang-rae Lee The Surrendered Winner [19]
Maaza Mengiste Beneath the Lion's Gaze Runner-up [19]
Dinaw Mengestu How to Read the Air Finalist [20]
Mark Mustian The Gendarme Finalist [20]
Teddy Wayne Kapitoil Finalist [20][21]
2012 Andrew Krivak The Sojourn Winner [22][23]
Ha Jin Nanjing Requiem Runner-up [22][23]
Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Finalist [24]
Ismet Prcic Shards Finalist [24]
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table Finalist [24]
Leah Hager Cohen The Grief of Others Finalist [24]
2013 Adam Johnson The Orphan Master's Son Winner [25]
Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Runner-up [25]
Robert Olmstead The Coldest Night Finalist [26]
Susanna Moore The Life of Objects Finalist [26]
Louise Erdrich The Round House Finalist [26]
Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Finalist [26]
2014 Bob Shacochis The Woman Who Lost Her Soul Winner [27][28]
Margaret Wrinkle Wash Runner-up [28]
Anthony Marra A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Finalist [29]
Antonio Muñoz Molina with Edith Grossman In the Night of Time Finalist [29]
Alice McDermott Someone Finalist [29]
P.S. Duffy The Cartographer of No Man's Land Finalist [29]
2015 Josh Weil The Great Glass Sea Winner [30]
Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See Runner-up [30]
Roxane Gay An Untamed State Finalist [31]
Tiphanie Yanique Land of Love and Drowning Finalist [31]
Cristina Henriquez The Book of Unknown Americans Finalist [31]
Jacqueline Winspear The Care and Management of Lies Finalist [31]
2016 Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer Winner [32][33][34]
James Hannaham Delicious Foods Runner-up [32]
Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life Finalist [35]
Elliot Ackerman Green on Blue Finalist [35]
Aline Ohanesian Orhan's Inheritance Finalist [35]
Matt Gallagher Youngblood Finalist [35]
2017 Patricia Engel The Veins of the Ocean Winner [36]
Yaa Gyasi Homegoing Runner-up [36]
2018 Hala Alyan Salt Houses Winner [37][38]
Min Jin Lee Pachinko Runner-up [38]
2019 Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde What We Owe Winner [39]
Richard Powers The Overstory Runner-up [39]
Tommy Orange There There Finalist [40]
Gina Apostol Insurrecto Finalist [40]
Moriel Rothman Zecher Sadness Is A White Bird Finalist [40]
Mary Lynn Bracht White Chrysanthemum Finalist [40]
2020 Alice Hoffman The World That We Knew Winner [41][42][43]
Christy Lefteri The Beekeeper of Aleppo Runner-up [41][42]
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Finalist [44]
Elif Shafak 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds Finalist [44]
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys Finalist [44]
Maurice Carlos Ruffin We Cast a Shadow Finalist [44]
2021 Alexander Starritt We Germans Winner [45]
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai The Mountains Sing Runner-up [45]
James McBride Deacon King Kong Finalist [42]
Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Finalist [42]
Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman Finalist [42]
Elizabeth Wetmore Valentine Finalist [42]
2022 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Winner [46]
JoAnne Tompkins What Comes After Runner-up [46]
Juhea Kim Beasts of a Little Land Finalist [46]
Anthony Doerr Cloud Cuckoo Land Finalist [46]
Patricia Engel Infinite Country Finalist [46]
Brad Kessler North Finalist [46]

Nonfiction edit

Year Author Title Result Ref.
2006 Stephen Walker Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima Winner [9]
Adam Hochschild Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Runner-up [9]
2007 Mark Kurlansky Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea Winner [10][11]
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time Runner-up [10][11]
2008 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying Winner [12][43]
Cullen Murphy Are We Rome Runner-up [12]
2009 Benjamin Skinner A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery Winner [14]
Thomas Friedman Hot, Flat, and Crowded Runner-up [14]
Nicholson Baker Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Finalist [15]
Joan Baxter Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa Finalist [15]
David Grossman Writing in the Dark Finalist [15]
Ariel Sabar My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for his Father’s Past Finalist [15]
Strobe Talbott The Great Experiment Finalist [15]
2010 Dave Eggers Zeitoun Winner [16][17]
Justine Hardy In the Valley of Mist Runner-up [16]
Roger Thurowand Scott Kilman Enough: Why the Worlds Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty Finalist [18]
Greg Mortenson Stones into Schools Finalist [18]
Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman Tears in the Darkness: the Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath Finalist [18]
Chinua Achebe The Education of a British-Protected Child Finalist [18]
2011 Wilbert Rideau In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance Winner [19][17]
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns Runner-up [19]
Kai Bird Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978 Finalist [20]
Conor Grennan Little Princes Finalist [20]
Laura Hillenbrand Unbroken Finalist [20]
Mac McClelland For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question Finalist [20]
2012 Adam Hochschild To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 Winner [22][23]
Annia Ciezadlo Day of Honey Runner-up [22][23]
Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France Finalist [24]
Leymah Gbowee Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War: A Memoir Finalist [24]
Karl Marlantes What It Is Like to Go to War Finalist [24]
2013 Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Winner [25]
Gilbert King Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Runner-up [25]
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Finalist [26]
Carmen Bugan Burying the Typewriter Finalist [26]
Blaine Harden Escape from Camp 14 Finalist [26]
Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac Pax Ethnica Finalist [26]
2014 Karima Bennoune Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here Winner [28]
Jo Roberts Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe Runner-up [28]
Steve McQuiddy Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream Finalist [29]
Katy Butler Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death Finalist [29]
Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped: A Memoir Finalist [29]
David Finkel Thank You for Your Service Finalist [29]
2015 Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Winner [30]
Jeff Hobbs The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace Runner-up [30]
Elizabeth D. Samet No Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America Finalist [31]
Lacy Johnson The Other Side Finalist [31]
Meline Toumani There Was and There Was Not: A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond Finalist [31]
Jeff Chang Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America Finalist [31]
2016 Susan Southard Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War Winner [32]
Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner Find Me Unafraid Runner-up [32]
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Finalist [35]
Wil Haygood Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Finalist [35]
Wab Kinew The Reason You Walk Finalist [35]
Jan Jarboe Russell The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II Finalist [35]
2017 David Wood What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars Winner [36]
Ben Rawlence City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp Runner-up [36]
2018 Ta-Nehisi Coates We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Winner [38][34]
Michelle Kuo Reading with Patrick Runner-up [38]
2019 Eli Saslow Rising Out of Hatred Winner [39]
Wil Haygood Tigerland Runner-up [39]
Tara Westover Educated Finalist [40]
David W. Blight Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Finalist [40]
Khalida Brohi I Should Have Honor Finalist [40]
Anthony Hinton with Lara Love Hardin The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Finalist [40]
2020 Chanel Miller Know My Name Winner [41][42][43]
Jennifer Eberhardt The Beekeeper of Aleppo Runner-up [41][42]
2021 Ariana Neumann When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains Winner [45]
Jordan Ritter Conn The Road from Raqqa Runner-up [45]
Toni Jenson Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Finalist [42]
Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Finalist [42]
Valarie Kaur See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love Finalist [42]
Michele Harper The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir Finalist [42]
2022 Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Winner [46]
Andrea Elliott Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Runner-up [46]
Amanda Ripley High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Finalist [46]
Shugri Said Salh The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert: A Memoir Finalist [46]
Heather McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Finalist [46]
Evan Osnos Wildland: The Making of America's Fury Finalist [46]

Lifetime Achievement Award edit

Year Author Ref.
2006 Studs Terkel [9]
2007 Elie Wiesel [10][11]
2008 Taylor Branch [12]
2009 Nicholas Kristof [14][15]
Sheryl WuDunn [14][15]

Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award edit

Year Author Ref.
2010 Geraldine Brooks [16][47]
2011 Barbara Kingsolver [17][48]
2012 Tim O'Brien [49]
2013 Wendell Berry [50]
2014 Louise Erdrich [51][52]
2015 Gloria Steinem [53]
2016 Marilynne Robinson [54]
2017 Colm Tóibín [55]
2018 John Irving [56]
2019 N. Scott Momaday [57][58]
2020/2021 Margaret Atwood [45][59]
2022 Wil Haygood
2023 Sandra Cisneros [60]

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