2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners Announced

I’m delighted to share with you the winners of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, announced as the Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary. 

The winners of the 2025 Dayton Literary Peace Prizes have been announced. Kaveh Akbar is the recipient of the prize for fiction for Martyr!, and Sunil Amrith is the recipient of the prize for nonfiction for The Burning Earth. 

Salman Rushdie has also been named as the recipient of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. 

The fiction and nonfiction winners each receive a $10,000 cash prize. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation will honor this year’s winners and runners-up at an awards ceremony in Dayton, Ohio the weekend of November 8–9.

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