Colm Tóibín Wins Richard C. Holbrooke Award

Jul 13, 2017

Irish novelist Colm Tóibín will receive the 2017 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 5. The award is named in honor of the U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia. Founded in 2005, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. It honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. The Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes authors for their complete body of work. Marilynne Robinson received the award in 2016.

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