2009 Book Nominations

Press Release
Call for Nominations

See Guidelines
Nomination deadline:
 March 12, 2009 

2009 Awards Ceremony

5:00 pm, November 8th, 2009
Benjamin and Marian Schuster
Performing Arts Center
One West Second Street
Dayton, OH 45402

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    2008 Award Winners

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Fiction Winner

Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(Penguin Group)
 


Fiction Runner-up

Daniel Alarcón
Lost City Radio
(HarperCollins Publishers)
 


Nonfiction Winner

Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying
(Knopf Publishing Group)
 


Nonfiction Runner-up

Cullen Murphy
Are We Rome?
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
 



2008 Award Winners

Photo of 2008 Award Winners Cullen Murphy Edwidge Danticat Taylor Branch Juno Diaz

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*Daniel Alarcón, the runner-up in fiction for Lost City Radio, was not able to attend the
  awards ceremony.

2009 Finalist Judges

Read about our judges
Gerald Early
Read about our judges
Gordon Lish
Read about our judges
Cullen Murphy
Read about our judges
Katherine Vaz



 
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