Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation is the successor to the Dayton Peace Prize. It was initially founded by the Dayton Peace Accords Project. Recipients of the prize have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999), William Jefferson Clinton (2000), George Soros (2002) and Richard Holbrooke (2005).

Trustees
Accessed January 2011:


 * Doris Ponitz, Honorary Chair
 * Mark Meister, Co-Chair; Dayton Society of Natural History
 * Sharon Rab, Founder and Co-Chair
 * Tom Lasley, Dean, School of Education and Allied Professions, University of Dayton
 * Merle Wilberding, Attorney, Coolidge Wall Co., LPA, Writer

==Winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ==

2010
 * Lifetime Achievement Award      	Geraldine Brooks
 * Fiction Award 	Marlon James for The Book of Night Women
 * Nonfiction Award 	Dave Eggers for Zeitoun
 * Fiction Runner-up 	Chimamanda Adichie for The Thing Around Your Neck
 * Nonfiction Runner-up 	Justine Hardy for In the Valley of Mist

2009
 * Lifetime Achievement Award      	Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
 * Fiction Award 	Richard Bausch for Peace
 * Nonfiction Award 	Benjamin Skinner for A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery
 * Fiction Runner-up 	Uwem Akpan for Say You're One of Them
 * Nonfiction Runner-up 	Thomas Friedman for Hot, Flat and Crowded

2008
 * Lifetime Achievement Award      	Taylor Branch
 * Fiction Award 	Junot Díaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
 * Nonfiction Award 	Edwidge Danticat for Brother, I’m Dying
 * Fiction Runner-up 	Daniel Alarcón for Lost City Radio
 * Nonfiction Runner-up 	Cullen Murphy for Are We Rome?

2007
 * Lifetime Achievement Award      	Elie Weisel
 * Fiction Award 	Brad Kessler for Birds in Fall
 * Nonfiction Award 	Mark Kurlansky for Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
 * Fiction Runner-up 	Lisa Fugard for Skinner’s Drift
 * Nonfiction Runner-up 	David Relin and Greg Mortenson for Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

2006
 * Lifetime Achievement Award      	Studs Terkel
 * Fiction Award 	Francine Prose for A Changed Man
 * Nonfiction Award 	Stephen Walker for Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
 * Fiction Runner-up 	Kevin Haworth for The Discontinuity of Small Things
 * Nonfiction Runner-up 	Adam Hochschild for Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Contact
URL: http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org