Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Conversation With The Authors

Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Conversation With The Authors

The conversation will be followed by an interview with Wil Haygood, the 2022 winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Dayton native, Clarence Page. The event will also feature the premiere of the newly-formed Dayton Literary Peace Prize chorus, under the direction of Mr. William Henry Caldwell.

Tickets range from $20 to $250 and can be purchased here

About the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Launched in 2006, it is recognized as one of the world’s most prestigious literary honors and is the only literary peace prize awarded in the United States. As an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards a $10,000 cash prize each year to one fiction and one nonfiction author whose work advances peace as a solution to conflict and leads readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view. 

Additionally, the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award is bestowed upon a writer whose body of work reflects the Prize's mission; previous honorees include Margaret Atwood, Wendell Berry, Taylor Branch, Geraldine Brooks, Louise Erdrich, John Irving, Barbara Kingsolver, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, N. Scott Momaday, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Gloria Steinem, Studs Terkel, Colm To´ibi´n, and Elie Wiesel.

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Victoria Theatre

Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Conversation With The Authors is taking place at Victoria Theatre, which is located at 138 North Main St. in Dayton. Victoria Theatre - Live Performances in an elegant, historic theatre located in downtown Dayton Ohio. Can accommodate up to 1,100 for meetings, 120 for banquets.

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.

Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation - Advancing Peace through Literature - The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace.