Ha Jin was runner-up for fiction; Annia Ciezadlo for nonfiction. Fiction winner was Andrew Krivak; nonfiction winner was Adam Hochschild (nonfiction runner-up in 2006). Tim O’Brien received the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. Click on the honoree’s name for video of acceptance speech, if available.
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
Annia Ciezadlo
In the Fall of 2003, as Iraq descended into Civil War, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years, she lived in Baghdad and Beirut, where she dodged bullets during sectarian street battles, chronicled the Arab world’s first peaceful revolution, and watched Hezbollah commandos invade her Beirut neighborhood. Throughout all of it, she broke bread with Sunnis and Shiites, warlords and refugees, matriarchs and mullahs. Day of Honey is her story of the hunger for food and friendship during wartime—a communion that feeds the soul as much as the body.
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In his riveting narrative, Hochschild brings it to life as never before while focusing on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes.
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Nanjing Requiem: A Novel
Ha Jin
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
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The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak
This is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary. When World War One comes, Jozef joins his adopted brother as a sharpshooter in the Kaiser’s army, surviving a perilous trek across the frozen Italian Alps and capture by a victorious enemy.
