Shelf Awareness
Finalists were named for the $10,000 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which recognizes fiction and nonfiction that "celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, social justice, and global understanding." A winner and runner-up in each category will be announced September 24, and honored November 9 at a ceremony in Dayton. The shortlisted titles are:Fiction
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Crown)
In the Night of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossman (HMH)
Someone by Alice McDermott (FSG)
The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P.S. Duffy (Liveright)
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis (Grove Atlantic)
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Grove Atlantic)
Nonfiction
Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Jo Roberts (Dundurn Press)
Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream by Steve McQuiddy (Oregon State University Press)
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butler (Scribner)
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel (Sarah Crichton Book/FSG)
Your Fatwa Does not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism by Karima Bennoune (Norton)
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