Here are the finalists for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prizes. ‹ Literary Hub


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August 15, 2024, 8:00am

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which “honors writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” has today announced its 2024 book award finalists. The winners in each category will receive a $10,000 cash prize, and the runners-up will be awarded $5,000.

The 2024 fiction finalists are:

Janika Oza, A History of Burning (Grand Central Publishing)
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child (Algonquin Books)
Paul Lynch, Prophet Song (Grove Atlantic)
Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home (Berkley)
Anne Berest, tr. Tina Kover, The Postcard (Europa Editions)
Erum Shazia Hasan, We Meant Well (ECW Press)

 

The 2024 nonfiction finalists are:

Edmund Raymond with Jon Sternfeld, An Inconvenient Cop (Viking)
Victor Luckerson, Built From the Fire (Random House)
Dana Sachs, All Else Failed (Bellevue Literary Press)
Tania Branigan, Red Memory (Faber)
Darrin Bell, The Talk (Henry Holt)
Dina Nayeri, Who Gets Believed? by (Catapult)

The winners and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award will be announced in September.



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