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The Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalists have been announced. The award "celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, social justice, and global understanding." On September 22nd a winner and runner-up in both fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced. The 2021 finalists are:
FICTION
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride [ebook]
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart [ebook]
- The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai [ebook]
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich [ebook]
- Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore [ebook]
- We Germans by Alexander Starritt
NONFICTION
- Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jenson
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [ebook]
- See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
- The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
- The Road from Raqqa: A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging by Jordan Ritter
- When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann [ebook]