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literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006.Dayton Literary Peace Prize - About the Award
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. In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium. In 2008, Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and

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as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award,King biographer latest Literary Peace Prize honoree
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, on September 28, 2008. Nick Clooney, who hosted the ceremony in 2007, again served as the evening's host in 2008Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2008 Winners
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/ref> The 2009 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, on November 8, 2009, at which married authors and journalists Nicholas Kristof and

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received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Press Release Announcing 2009 Finalists
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Recipients

Fiction

Nonfiction

Lifetime Achievement Award

Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

References

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External links

Dayton Literary Peace Prize - An International Award
International literary awards Awards established in 2006 Peace awards American non-fiction literary awards American fiction awards Culture of Dayton, Ohio 2006 establishments in Ohio English-language literary awards