Dayton Literary Peace Prizes honor wartime Ukraine novel and book on history of Charleston church
The Dayton Literary Peace Prizes have honored a wartime novel from Ukraine and a book chronicling the history of a Black church in South Carolina. The fiction prize went to Sam Wachman's debut "The Sunflower Boys," which tells the story of two brothers navigating life after a Russian bombing. Nonfiction winner Kevin Sack's "Mother Emanuel" documents 200 years of race, resistance, and forgiveness at a Charleston church.
The winning authors will each receive $10,000, while runners-up Charlotte McConaghy and Eve L. Ewing will get $5,000 each.
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