Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation

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The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation is the successor to the Dayton Peace Prize. It was initially founded by the Dayton Peace Accords Project . Recipients of the prize have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999), William Jefferson Clinton (2000), George Soros (2002) and Richard Holbrooke (2005). [1]

Trustees

Accessed January 2011: [2]

Winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize [3]

2010

2009

2008

2007

  • Lifetime Achievement Award Elie Weisel
  • Fiction Award Brad Kessler for Birds in Fall
  • Nonfiction Award Mark Kurlansky for Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
  • Fiction Runner-up Lisa Fugard for Skinner’s Drift
  • Nonfiction Runner-up David Relin and Greg Mortenson for Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

2006

  • Lifetime Achievement Award Studs Terkel
  • Fiction Award Francine Prose for A Changed Man
  • Nonfiction Award Stephen Walker for Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
  • Fiction Runner-up Kevin Haworth for The Discontinuity of Small Things
  • Nonfiction Runner-up Adam Hochschild for Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Contact

URL: http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org

Resources and articles

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References

  1. History, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, accessed January 27, 2011.
  2. Trustees, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, accessed January 27, 2011.
  3. Winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, accessed January 27, 2011.