P.S. Duffy's book on shortlist for Dayton Peace Prize

Rochester novelist P.S. Duffy is on the long list for this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for her debut novel, "The Cartographer of No Man's Land." (Review here.) The story of a Nova Scotia family during World War I, our critic called it a "beautiful novel about a terrible war."

Others in the running for the prize are:

Fiction:

Alice McDermott, "Someone." (Strib review here)

Anthony Marra, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena."

Antonio Munos Molina, "In the Night of Time."

Bob Shacochis, "The Woman Who Lost Her Soul."

Nonfiction

Jo Roberts, "Contested Land, Contested Memory"

Steve McQuiddy, "Here on Edge: How a Small Group of WWII Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream."

Katy Butler, "Knocking on Heaven's Door." (Strib review here)

Jesmyn Ward, "Men We Reaped." (Strib review here)

Karima Bennoune, "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here."

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is given annually to one work of fiction and one work of nonfiction that promotes peace, justice and understanding. Previous winners include Chang- rae Lee, Marlon James, Adam Johnson, and Adam Hochschild.