Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
This cover image released by Viking shows"His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Justice" by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, which won an award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
The awards were announced Tuesday by the Dayton foundation, which honors a book of fiction and of nonfiction for using “the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.
Previous winners Viet Thanh Nguyen's “The Sympathizer,” Ta-Nehisi Coates' “We Were Eight Years in Power” and Chanel Miller's “Know My Name.” Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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