NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten historical past, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Title Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Battle for Racial Justice” have gained awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Basis.
The awards have been introduced Tuesday by the Dayton basis, which honors a ebook of fiction and of nonfiction for utilizing “the ability of literature to foster peace, social justice, and international understanding.” Brooks gained the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her novel “March,” whereas “His Title Is George Floyd” was a Pulitzer winner earlier this 12 months.
On Tuesday, Lily Brooks-Dalton’s “The Mild Pirate” was the runner-up for the Dayton fiction prize, and Adam Hochschild’s World Battle I-era historical past “American Midnight: The Nice Battle, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Disaster” was runner-up for nonfiction.
Earlier winners embrace Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,” Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ “We Had been Eight Years in Energy” and Chanel Miller’s “Know My Title.”
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