Sandra Cisneros to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Sep 12, 2023

Sandra Cisneros will receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, presented by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. Cisneros is a poet, essayist, short story writer, and author of the novel The House on Mango Street. She will be interviewed Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, during the awards ceremony, to be held in Dayton, Ohio, on November 12.

The Foundation has also announced the 12 finalists for this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prizes in fiction and nonfiction. The finalists are as follows: 

Fiction

  • Anthem by Noah Hawley
  • The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
  • The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • Mecca by Susan Straight

Nonfiction

  • American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
  • Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy
  • His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
  • Ma and Me by Putsata Reang
  • The Treeline by Ben Rawlence
  • Zarifa by Zarifa Ghafari with Hannah Lucinda Smith

Correction: An earlier version of this story characterized Carla Hayden as the presenter of the award to Cisneros; she is interviewing her, but not presenting her with the award.

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