Dayton Peace Prize Winners Announced
The 2019 Dayton Peace Prize, which honors authors of both fiction and nonfiction underscoring themes of peace, social justice and global understanding will be awarded to Eli Saslow for his study of white supremacy in the U.S., Rising Out of Hatred, and to Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde for her novel about Iranian refugees living in Sweden, What We Owe. The Dayton Peace, inspired by the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, has been awarded annually since 1995.
Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium and runners-up receive $5,000 each. The prize was inspired by the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia. Saslow and Bonde, as well as this year’s two runners-up will be honored during a gala awards ceremony in Dayton, Ohio, November 3.