Finalists for the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, include:
Fiction
* The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
* How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu (Riverhead)
* Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste (Norton)
* The Gendarme by Mark Mustian (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
* Kapitoil by Teddy Wayne (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction
* Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 by Kai Bird (Scribner)
* Little Princes by Conor Grennan (HarperCollins)
* Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House)
* For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question by Mac McClelland (Soft Skull Press)
* In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau (Knopf)
* The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Winners will be honored at a ceremony in Dayton, Ohio, on November 13
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