Just Mercy wins the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Congratulations to Bryan Stevenson, whose inspiring memoir Just Mercy has won the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The prize honours writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. A 'stunning probe into the broken U.S. criminal justice system', Just Mercy is a personal narrative by Stevenson, one of America's leading legal thinkers and social justice advocates. It has been described as 'emotionally profound, necessary reading' (Kirkus), and the judges said of it, and other winners, that they ‘[T]ell the often tragic stories of lives shaped by outside forces — systemic injustice, political corruption, racism, war — that are beyond any one person's control ... While no one can singlehandedly topple those forces, these books remind us that we can and must work together to diminish them.’

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