2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Simon & Schuster) and The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois are two finalists for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the Fiction category. How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith (Little, Brown) is one of the finalists for the Nonfiction category.

The prize “is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace,” and includes $10,000 for the winners of each category and $5,000 for runners-up.

For more information, see the Dayton Literary Peace Prize website.

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