Books that address the topic of contemporary slavery were among the honorees of the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, whose winners were announced on Tuesday. The selection committee for the prize, which recognizes “the power of literature to promote peace and nonviolence,” said in a news release that its nonfiction prize would go to “A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face With Modern Day Slavery,” by E. Benjamin Skinner, and that its fiction prize would go to “Peace,” a World War II novel by Richard Bausch. Both prizes come with an award of $10,000; the committee said that Mr. Skinner is donating his honorarium to Free the Slaves, the American wing of Anti-Slavery International.
The committee said that it had chosen “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” by Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, as the runner-up in its nonfiction category, and “Say You’re One of Them,” a short story collection by Uwem Akpan, as its fiction runner-up. The collection by Mr. Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit priest, was also recently chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club.
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