{"id":8981,"date":"2019-07-24T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-author-honored-with-peace-prize\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:52:59","slug":"native-american-author-honored-with-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-american-author-honored-with-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Native American author honored with peace prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>CINCINNATI \u2014 A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year\u2019s winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature\u2019s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding.<\/p>\n

Dayton Literary Peace Prize<\/a>\u00a0officials selected novelist, poet and essayist N. Scott Momaday for the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. It\u2019s named for the late U.S. diplomat who brokered the 1995 Bosnia peace accords reached in Ohio.<\/p>\n

A Kiowa Indian, Momaday earned the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with \u201cHouse Made of Dawn,\u201d about a young man returning to his Kiowa pueblo after serving in the U.S. Army. His 1968 book has been credited with leading a renaissance in Native American literature.<\/p>\n

Born in 1934, Momaday grew up on reservations in the southwestern United States, where his parents were teachers.<\/p>\n

He drew from Kiowa history and folk lore for \u201cThe Way to Rainy Mountain\u201d in 1969 and wrote about the influence of ancestors and traditions in his early life in \u201cThe Names: A Memoir\u201d in 1976.<\/p>\n

Sharon Rab, founder and chairwoman of the peace prize foundation, said Momaday\u2019s work shows the \u201cpower of ritual, imagination, and storytelling\u201d to produce peace through intercultural understanding and that it honors and safeguards \u201cthe storytelling traditions of our nation\u2019s indigenous communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Momaday said in a statement that peace is the objective of human evolution, and literature is the measure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe history of human experience is in many ways a history of dysfunction and conflict, and literature, because it is an accurate record of that history, reflects not only what is peaceful, but what is the universal hope and struggle for peace,\u201d he said. \u201cLiterature and peace are at last indivisible. They form an equation that is the definition of art and humanity.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The award carries a $10,000 prize. Previous winners include Studs Terkel, Taylor Branch, John Irving, Gloria Steinem, and Elie Wiesel.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s awards gala will be Nov. 3, when Momaday will be joined by the 2019 winners of awards for fiction and nonfiction who will be announced Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

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CINCINNATI \u2014 A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year\u2019s winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature\u2019s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u00a0officials selected novelist, poet and essayist N. Scott Momaday for the Richard C. Holbrooke <\/p>\n

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