Thursday, August 22, 2013

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalists in fiction and non-fiction

The winners and runners-up will be announced September 24, and honoured November 3 in Dayton, Ohio. The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (Ecco)
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead (Algonquin)
The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore (Knopf)
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House)
The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Random House)
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Little, Brown)


Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (Random House)
Burying the Typewriter by Carmen Bugan (Graywolf)
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (HarperCollins)
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden (Viking)
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon (Scribner)
Pax Ethnica by Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac (Public Affairs)

via Pubishers Lunch

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