Chang-Rae Lee and Wilbert Rideau have won the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lee won the $10,000 fiction prize for The Surrendered and Rideau won the $10,000 nonfiction prize for In the Place of Justice.
Isabel Wilkerson was the nonfiction runner-up for The Warmth of Other Suns while Maaza Mengiste was the fiction runner-up for Beneath the Lion’s Gaze. They will each receive $1,000. Ken McClane, Eric Bates, Ron Carlson, and April Smith served as judges.
Here’s more from the release: “The Foundation will also award Professor Nigel Young with a special Dayton Literary Peace Prize Award for Scholarship for his role as editor of The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press). The award, which carries a $1,000 prize, was created especially for the Encyclopedia as a tribute to its lasting contribution to the study of peace, and also to Young’s monumental achievement in marshalling the efforts of hundreds of scholars from around the world to create this unique and comprehensive work.”