Meet the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize nominees

Congratulations to this year's nominees for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize!

The award is the only international one given out in the United States; it honors "writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding."

We'll find out who won the prize (and its $10,000 purse) on September 27.

Runners-up will receive $5,000.

Earlier this summer, the prize announced that Wil Haygood, author of The Butler, would receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in a separate ceremony.

Fiction

• Beasts of a Little Land, by Juhea Kim

• Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr

• Infinite Country , by Patricia Engel

• North, by Brad Kessler

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

• What Comes After, by JoAnne Tompkins

Nonfiction

• High Conflict, by Amanda Ripley

• How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith

• Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliott

• The Last Nomad, by Shugri Said Sahl

• The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee

• Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, by Evan Osnos