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2009 - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners and Runners-Up

 

Runner-up honors went to Uwem Akpan for fiction and Thomas Freidman for nonfiction. Richard Baucsh received the year’s fiction award and Benjamin Skinner for nonfiction. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn received the award for Lifetime Achievement. Click on the honoree’s name for video of acceptance speech.

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  • Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

    Say You're One of Them

    Uwem Akpan

    This singular collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

  • Peace: A Novel by Richard Bausch

    Peace: A Novel

    Richard Bausch

    Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time--and then set upon by a sniper.

  • Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How it Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

    Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How it Can Renew America

    Thomas L. Friedman

    Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In vivid, entertaining chapters, Friedman makes it clear that the green revolution we need is like no revolution the world has seen. It will be the biggest innovation project in American history; it will be hard, not easy; and it will change everything from what you put into your car to what you see on your electric bill. But the payoff for America will be more than just cleaner air. It will inspire Americans to something we haven't seen in a long time -- nation-building in America -- by summoning the intelligence, creativity, boldness, and concern for the common good that are our nation's greatest natural resources.

  • A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner

    A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery

    E. Benjamin Skinner

    There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. In this account of contemporary slavery, journalist Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told--and heard. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, Skinner has produced a moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. After spending four years infiltrating trafficking networks and slave sales on five continents, he tells the story of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime. Their stories are heartbreaking but, in the midst of tragedy, readers discover a quiet dignity that leads some slaves to resist and aspire to freedom.

 
 
 

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