Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners Announced
Two books exploring the U.S.’s legacy of slavery have been awarded this year’s Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois has been awarded the prize in fiction, and Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed has received the prize in the nonfiction category. What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins was the runner-up in fiction, and Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott was the runner-up in nonfiction.
The two winners will each receive a $10,000 honorarium and the runners-up $5,000 during a gala awards ceremony, to be held in Dayton, Ohio on Nov. 13. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, launched in 2006 and administered by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, honors writers “whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” The prize was inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia.
