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Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is an annual United States literary award "recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace" that was first awarded in 2006. Awards are given for adult fiction and non-fiction books published at some point within the immediate past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other peoples, cultures, religions, and political views, with the winner in each category receiving a cash prize of $10,000. The award is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize, which grew out of the 1995 peace accords ending the Bosnian War. In 2011, the former "Lifetime Achievement Award" was renamed the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award with a $10,000 honorarium. In 2008, Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Taylor Branch joined Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel as a recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him by special guest Edwin C. Moses. The 2008 ceremony was held in Dayton, Ohio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Fugard
Lisa Fugard is a South African writer and actor. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the only child of playwright Athol Fugard and novelist Sheila Meiring Fugard. Career Fugard moved to New York City in 1980 to pursue an acting career, and has garnered numerous stage and film roles, including Isabel Dyson in the original production of her father's ''My Children! My Africa!'' She, her husband, and son (born 2004) have lived in the desert of Southern California since early 2002, in Borrego Springs and Encinitas, on the coast north of San Diego. Since 1992, Fugard has written many short stories for literary magazines, and articles for ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...'' travel section. In January 2006, she wrote the novel ''Skinner's D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayton Daily News
The ''Dayton Daily News'' (''DDN'') is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Communications, Cox Automotive, and Ohio Newspapers (including the Dayton Daily News). Headquarters The Dayton Daily News has its headquarters in the Manhattan Building in downtown Dayton, 601 E. Third St. The newspaper’s editorial and business offices were moved there in January, 2022. For more than 100 years the paper's editorial offices and printing presses were located in downtown Dayton. From 1999 to 2017, the paper was printed at the Print Technology Center near Interstate 75 in Franklin about 15 minutes to the south. In 2017, the Dayton Daily News's parent company came to an agreement with Gannett for the paper to be printed at Gannett's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvage The Bones
''Salvage the Bones'' is the second novel by American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Bloomsbury in 2011. The novel explores the plight of a working-class African-American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follows them through the aftermath of the storm. Ward, who lived through Katrina, wrote the novel, after being very "dissatisfied with the way Katrina had receded from public consciousness". The novel was the 2011 recipient of the National Book Award for Fiction. In an interview with the ''Paris Review'', Ward said she drew inspiration from ''Medea'' and the works of William Faulkner. Plot summary The novel follows a working-class African-American family living in southern Mississippi in 2005. The family consists of Daddy, his daughter Esch (the narrator), and his sons Randall, Skeetah, and Junior. Their mother died while giving birth to Junior. Skeetah has a close relationship with his dog China, who gives birth to a litter of puppies at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanjing Requiem
''Nanjing Requiem'' is a 2011 novel by Ha Jin, about the Nanjing Massacre. Background Ha Jin wrote this novel in English, his second language. The author consulted the journals of Minnie Vautrin and other works for research. Contents The book begins in 1937. - Cited page: 84 (PDF p. 10/18). The book focuses on Vautrin and her work at Ginling College to protect people during the massacre. An teacher named Anling Gao, a middle-aged female assistant to Vautrin, is the novel's narrator. Pin-chia Feng of National Chiao Tung University wrote that while Anling narrates, the novel "unquestionably" makes Vautrin its protagonist. Anling's son becomes consumed with nationalism. - Cited page: 82 (PDF p. 8/18). Vautrin herself, as well as John Magee, John Rabe, and Lewis Smythe appear in the work. Vautrin leaves for the United States after Communist officials accuse her of collaborating with the Japanese. The ending is set in 1947. Some of the characters speak in American slang charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapitoil
''Kapitoil'' is a 2010 novel by Teddy Wayne published by Harper Perennial. Summary In the summary of Michael K. Walonen, ''Kapitoil'' recounts three months in the life of Karim Issar, a young Qatarian computer scientist/businessman who has traveled to Manhattan in October 1999 to work for an investment firm debugging its computer system in anticipation of Y2K. In short order Karim develops a program he names Kapitoil that allows high profit gain through predicting fluctuations in the oil futures market by clandestinely monitoring the language of news reports on the Middle East and using algorithms to anticipate how the perceptions of world events they generate will impact the market. The success of Karim’s program leads him to advance rapidly in his firm while a romantic relationship with a co-worker blossoms, but moral conflict encroaches when he is faced with the choice of selling the intellectual property rights to his boss or disseminating them freely through an academic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelf Awareness
Shelf Awareness is an American publishing company that produces two electronic publications/newsletters focused on bookselling, books and book reviews. Overview With offices in Seattle, Washington, and Montclair, New Jersey, ''Shelf Awareness'' publishes an e-newsletter for the book industry and an e-newsletter for general readers. ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' is a daily trade magazine for booksellers, publishers, librarians, and literary agents with a circulation of 39,000. ''Shelf Awareness for Readers'' is a twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) book review publication for consumers with a circulation of 399,000. Approximately 130 independent bookstores send out a version of ''Shelf Awareness for Readers'' to their customers. History The company was founded by editor/journalist John Mutter (editor-in-chief) and Jenn Risko (publisher) in 2005 to produce a trade magazine for booksellers. The circulation of ''Shelf Awareness Pro'' (also called ''Shelf Awareness for the Book Trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beneath The Lion's Gaze
''Beneath the Lion's Gaze'' is a 2010 novel by Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste. It describes a family in Addis Ababa in 1974, living through the transition from emperor Haile Selassie to rule by the Derg. Favorably reviewed, ''Beneath the Lion's Gaze'' was a nominee for several prizes. Plot ''Beneath the Lion's Gaze'' is set in Addis Ababa in 1974, at the end of the rule of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and the beginning of the military junta replacing Selassie's rule, the Derg. It follows the family of a doctor, his dying wife and their two sons through the political upheaval. Reception Writing in ''The New York Times'', Lorraine Adams says, "Mengiste understands well the unique position her country occupies in Africa’s postcolonial landscape. And her uncanny rendition of Selassie’s last moments reveals her sensitivity to the twisted singularity of his magnetism." In ''The Guardian'', Pushpinder Khaneka named it to a list of best books about Ethiopia, saying, "Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutting For Stone
''Cutting for Stone'' (2009) is a novel written by Ethiopian-born Indian-American medical doctor and author Abraham Verghese. It is a saga of twin brothers, orphaned by their mother's death at their births and forsaken by their father. The book includes both a deep description of medical procedures and an exploration of the human side of medical practices. When first published, the novel was on The New York Times Best Seller list for two years and generally received well by critics. With its positive reception, Barack Obama put it on his summer reading list and the book was optioned for adaptations. Plot summary The story is told by the protagonist, Marion Stone. He and his conjoined twin Shiva are born at Mission Hospital (called "Missing" in accordance with the local pronunciation), Addis Ababa, in September 1954. Their mother, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, an Indian Carmelite nun, dies during childbirth. Their father, Thomas Stone, the English surgeon of Missing, abandons them an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telex From Cuba
''Telex from Cuba'' is the 2008 debut novel of writer Rachel Kushner. The novel follows a group of anglo-expatriates living in Cuba during the Cuban revolution and was loosely based on Kushner's mother's experience growing up in Cuba on territory occupied by the United Fruit Company. Plot Set in Cuba during Fulgencio Batista's reign as dictator, the novel follows the intersecting lives of several families of white American expatriates, the men of which work for the United Fruit Company. Several Americans who, back home, would have been of different classes and never mixed, become close while living in Cuba. K.C. Stites, the son of the CEO, with the encouragement of his mother, grows close with Everly Lederer, the daughter of a man who was considered weak and ineffectual back home. His best friend is from the Allain family whom the Stites consider hillbillys and who is rumoured to have killed a man back in America. The Carringtons are a couple who lived in Latin America for most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Coma
''Beijing Coma'' is a 2008 novel by Ma Jian. It was translated from Chinese by Flora Drew. The Chinese government has since banned the book. Ma has stated that he wrote the book "to reclaim history from a totalitarian government whose role is to erase it" and named the novel ''Beijing Coma'' in reference to this. ''Beijing Coma'' was listed as one of ''The New York Times'' "100 Notable Books of 2008". Synopsis The book follows the character of Dai Wei, a man who awakens from a coma to discover that ten years have passed since he was shot in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. The book's narrative switches between Dai Wei's time as a seemingly non-responsive coma patient to his life before his shooting. Reception Critical reception for the book was positive, with Tash Aw calling it "a landmark". Pankaj Mishra compared ''Beijing Coma'' with the work of writers such as Milan Kundera, Josef Škvorecký and Ivan Klíma. Michiko Kakutani praised the novel's translation while stating t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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