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Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2014

The 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize went to The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis (Fiction) and Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalists by Karima Bennoune (Nonfiction). 2 books were Honor Books and 10 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Fiction

  1. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochissource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalists by Karima Bennounesource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

Fiction

  1. Wash by Margaret Wrinklesource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Jo Robertssource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Fiction

  1. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marrasource (opens in a new tab)
  2. In the Night of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossmansource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Someone by Alice McDermottsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Cartographer of No Man's Land by P.S. Duffysource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Here on the Edge by Steve McQuiddysource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death by Katy Butlersource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Wardsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Thank You for Your Service by David Finkelsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Fiction and Nonfiction finalists, winners and runners-up from the Prize's own year pages, 2006-2025. Runners-up are recorded as Honor. Year is the award year the Prize uses; the fall ceremony honors books from the year before. The 2021 lists sit on the 2020-awards page. Nominated-book lists on the early pages and the Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (a person, not a book) are left out. A few misspelled titles and author names on the pages are corrected (for example Oscar Wao, Wangari Maathai, Kao Kalia Yang).

Organization: Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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