2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists Announced

Aug 18, 2021

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize has announced its lists of finalists for 2021 in the fiction and nonfiction categories. A winner and runner-up in each category will be announced on September 22. Winners receive a $10,000 honorarium, and runners-up receive $5,000.

Last year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners will also be recognized at this year's awards ceremony. Margaret Atwood will accept the 2020 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named in honor of the noted U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords. Other 2020 winners being honored at the event are Alice Hoffman, 2020 fiction winner for The World That We Knew; Christy Lefteri, 2020 fiction runner-up for The Beekeeper of Aleppo; Chanel Miller, 2020 nonfiction winner for Know My Name; and Jennifer Eberhardt, 2020 nonfiction runner-up for Biased.

The 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize fiction finalists are 

  • Deacon King Kong by James McBride (Riverhead)
  • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Grove)
  • The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Algonquin)
  • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins)
  • Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore (HarperCollins)
  • We Germans by Alexander Starritt (Little Brown)

The 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize nonfiction finalists are 

  • Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jenson (Ballantine)
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
  • See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur (One World)
  • The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper (Riverhead)
  • The Road from Raqqa: A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging by Jordan Ritter (Ballantine)
  • When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann (Scribner)
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