Minnesota author Louise Erdrich has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's achievement award. The Dayton prizes are intended to recognize literature's power to influence peace, social justice and global understanding; the distinguished achievement award is given for an author's body of work. Erdrich's latest novel, The Round House, won the 2012 National Book Award for fiction. Her first novel, Love Medicine, won the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Plague of Doves was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The Goddard Library has these and many other titles by Louise Erdrich. Stop in and take a look!
