Finalists have been named for the $10,000 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which recognizes fiction and nonfiction that "uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice and global understanding." Winners will be announced November 11 in Dayton, Ohio. The shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin (Pantheon)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
Shards by Ismet Prcic (Grove Atlantic)
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (Riverhead)
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)
Nonfiction
A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead (HarperCollins)
Day of Honey by Annia Ciezadlo (Free Press)
Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee (Perseus Books Group)
To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (Grove/Atlantic)
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