The Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Categories: Award Winners , Nonfiction , Fiction

You may remember the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995, which resulted from high-level meetings in Dayton, Ohio and which led to the end of war in the Balkans?  Since that time, the Dayton Peace Prize has been created, and in 2006, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize was inaugurated, "the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace."   Awards are granted for both fiction and non-fiction books that were published in English during the previous year.  This year's list of nominated titles includes Robert Olmstead's Coal Black Horse, which was one of the titles for our On The Same Page Cincinnati community reading program during March 2008.  The Library holds copies of all of the titles on the list; the honors will be awarded at a banquet in Dayton on September 28.