2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Shortlist Announced
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation has announced the 2018 finalists for its annual awards in fiction and nonfiction. Dedicated to “recognizing the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation,” the prize will be awarded on September 18.
Fiction
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*Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck
*Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
*Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan
*Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfar
Nonfiction
Enduring Vietnam, by James Wright
Ghost of the Innocent Man, by Benjamin Rachlin
Lolas’ House, by M. Evelina Galang
Reading with Patrick, by Michelle Kuo
The Newcomers, by Helen Thorpe
*We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates