NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett ‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “James” is up for one more literary honor.
Everett’s dramatic retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a fiction nominee for the twentieth annual Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which comes with a $10,000 money award. In addition to the Pulitzer, “James” has additionally received the Nationwide Ebook Award and Kirkus Prize.
David Greenberg’s “ John Lewis,” a biography of the late civil rights activist and congressman, is a nonfiction finalist, the Dayton prize basis introduced Thursday.
Winners in each classes shall be introduced in September.
The opposite fiction contenders are Priscilla Morris’ “Black Butterflies,” Alejandro Puyana’s “Freedom Is a Feast,” Kristin Hannah’s “ The Women,” Helen Benedict’s “The Good Deed” and Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr!”
In addition to “John Lewis,” the nonfiction nominees are Sunil Amrith’s “The Burning Earth,” Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity,” Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War,” Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins” and Wendy Pearlman’s “The Home I Worked to Make.”
Established in 1995 and named for the historic agreements that ended the struggle in Bosnia, the Dayton prizes are given to authors whose “work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace.”
Earlier winners embody Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,”Edwidge Danticat ’s “Brother, I’m Dying” and Ta-Nehisi Coates ’ “We Were Eight Years in Power.”
