{
  "id": 8003265,
  "title": "Dayton Literary Peace Prizes honor wartime Ukraine novel and book on history of Charleston church",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/dayton-literary-peace-prizes-honor-wartime-ukraine-novel-and-book-on",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-17T10:02:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Winnipeg Free Press",
    "slug": "winnipeg-free-press",
    "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/2026/09/17/dayton-literary-peace-prizes-honor-wartime-ukraine-novel-and-book-on-history-of-charleston-church"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}