2012 Awards Ceremony

5:00 pm, November 11th, 2012
Benjamin and Marian Schuster
Performing Arts Center
One West Second Street
Dayton, OH 45402

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    2011 Award Winners

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Fiction Winner

Chang-rae Lee
The Surrendered
(Riverhead Books)
 

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Nonfiction Winner

Wilbert Rideau
In the Place of Justice
(Alfred A. Knopf)
 

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Fiction Runner-up

Maaza Mengiste
Beneath the Lion's Gaze
(W. W. Norton and Company)
 

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Nonfiction Runner-up

Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
(Random House)
 

Award for Scholarship  

Nigel Young, Ed.
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
(Oxford University Press)
 


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The 2011 Award Ceremony


                                        Photos by Andy Snow (andysnow.com) ©2011.

The 2011 Awards Ceremony was held at 5:00 pm on Sunday, November 13th, at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center at One West Second Street in Dayton, Ohio. Nick Clooney was the Master of Ceremonies.

==> Read the Dayton Daily News Article.



 
2011 Finalist Judges

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Eric
Bates

(Nonfiction)
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Ron
Carlson

(Fiction)
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Kenneth
McClane

(Nonfiction)
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April
Smith

(Fiction)

 
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