Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation Announces Finalists for 2024 Book Awards

Six Finalists Named in Both the Fiction & Nonfiction Categories

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation will honor the winners, first runners-up, and other finalists at an awards ceremony in Dayton, Ohio the weekend of November 9-10, 2024.

Wright Library will also host a Dayton Literary Peace Prize Author Visit in November. 
Details at wrightlibrary.org/events

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The 2024 fiction finalists are:
A History of Burning by Janika Oza (Grand Central Publishing)
Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Algonquin Books)
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Grove Atlantic)
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (Berkley)
The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions)
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan (ECW Press)

The 2024 nonfiction finalists are:
An Inconvenient Cop by Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld (Viking)
Built From the Fire by Victor Luckerson (Random House)
All Else Failed by Dana Sachs (Bellevue Literary Press)
Red Memory by Tania Branigan (Faber)
The Talk by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt)
Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri (Catapult)

Winners and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award will be announced in September. 

About the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Inspired by the Dayton Accords which ended the Bosnian War, the annual Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the first and only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States, honors writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace.

Based on that criteria, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation will award the 2024 book award winners a $10,000 cash prize, and the first runners-up will receive a $5,000 cash prize.

All of the books and authors named as finalists demonstrate the ways in which the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation believes literature can advance peace, social justice, and global understanding between different cultures, religions, communities, and political points of view.

Past Dayton Literary Peace Prize Events at Wright Library

The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton, 2023 DLPP Fiction runner-up.

The Road from Raqqa : A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging by Jordan Ritter Conn, 2021 DLPP Nonfiction Runner-up.