Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named in honor of the noted U.S. “Education is the reason why I spent a decade on this book.”Īward organizers announced in July that Irish novelist, journalist, and essayist Colm Tóibín, whose fiction and nonfiction captures the impact of exile and political conflict on individual lives, will receive the 2017 Richard C. “I’m so honored that many students and readers are learning about the genocide for the first time through my grandfather’s story,” MacKeen said. It’s beginning to be taught in universities and high schools. “Being a witness to that satanic pogrom, I vowed it as my duty to put to paper what I saw,” Miskjian wrote in his notebooks.īoth the New York Post and Outside declared the book a “must read.” It was also awarded best biography by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Miskjian believed he’d lived in order to tell the world about the atrocities. The book alternates between the two accounts. She then retraced his steps across Turkey and Syria. Miskjian left hundreds of pages detailing his survival, which MacKeen, an investigative journalist, used to reconstruct his life and death march. The Hundred-Year Walk tells the courageous story of MacKeen’s grandfather, Stepan Miskjian, one of the few to survive the massacres in the Deir Zor region of present-day Syria. “Now more than ever, we need to celebrate authors who dare to explore the impact of war, exile, racism, and economic inequality and, more importantly, endeavor to offer hope in these tumultuous times.” “At a time of great uncertainty in the world, this year’s finalists reveal how we got to this point and offer powerful lessons on how we can heal, reconcile, and build a better world,” said Sharon Rab, co-chair of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.
The other finalists include Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad, and J.D. This year’s winners will be honored at a gala ceremony in Dayton on November 5th. The Prize celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, justice, and global understanding.
Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States. She is one of twelve authors shortlisted in nonfiction and fiction for the award, which recognizes the power of literature to promote peace and reconciliation. DAYTON, OH – Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s book, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, is a finalist for the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize in nonfiction.
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