Winners of the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Announced
Posted on September 26, 2011
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation has announced the winners of the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee won the fiction prize and In The Place Of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau won the nonfiction prize.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson are the runners-up.
The annual awards are 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. Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium while runners-up receive $1,000.
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