Percival Everett ‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “James” is up for an additional literary honor.
Everett’s dramatic retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a fiction nominee for the twentieth annual Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which comes with a $10,000 money award. In addition to the Pulitzer, “James” has additionally received the Nationwide E-book Award and Kirkus Prize.
David Greenberg’s “ John Lewis,” a biography of the late civil rights activist and congressman, is a nonfiction finalist, the Dayton prize basis introduced Monday.
Winners in each classes shall be introduced in September.
The opposite fiction contenders are Priscilla Morris’ “Black Butterflies,” Alejandro Puyana’s “Freedom Is a Feast,” Kristin Hannah’s “ The Girls,” Helen Benedict’s “The Good Deed” and Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr!”
In addition to “John Lewis,” the nonfiction nominees are Sunil Amrith’s “The Burning Earth,” Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity,” Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear Struggle,” Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins” and Wendy Pearlman’s “The Dwelling I Labored to Make.”
Established in 1995 and named for the historic agreements that ended the warfare in Bosnia, the Dayton prizes are given to authors whose “work demonstrates the facility of the written phrase to foster peace.”
Earlier winners embody Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,”Edwidge Danticat ’s “Brother, I’m Dying” and Ta-Nehisi Coates ’ “We Had been Eight Years in Energy.” ___ This story has been corrected to point out that the announcement was made Monday, not Thursday.
