Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Conversation With The Authors

Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Conversation With The Authors Nov 8

Victoria Theatre to host conversation with winners of 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Please join the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation for a once-in-a-lifetime literary event celebrating the 2025 winning authors and the 20th anniversary of the Prize. On Saturday, November 8, the Victoria Theatre stage will host national and international authors whose works are recognized as advancing peace through literature. Dayton Literary Peace Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King will moderate the panel.

Additionally, the 2025 Holbrooke recipient is renowned author Salman Rushdie. Following the panel conversation, Rushdie will be interviewed one-on-one live on stage by David Rohde, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and national security and law editor at NBC News. This conversation is an incredible opportunity to hear first-hand about Rushdie and his life’s work as one of the most profound and impactful authors in the world.

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.