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Jimmy Carter Receives Holbrooke Award From Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
NEW YORK — Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has waived its usual requirement that the honor collects the honour in person.
Jimmy received this year’s Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named after the late diplomat, according to the Ohio-based organization on Thursday. Carter was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his human rights advocacy and for brokering accords between Egypt and Israel, such as the Camp David Accord.
Carter, who turns 100 on October 1, is receiving hospice care in Plains, Georgia. His grandson, Jason Carter, will accept the prize on his behalf at a November ceremony honoring the former president’s peace efforts and authorship of more than 30 books, which the foundation describes as “the power of the written word to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.”
Jimmy Carter Receives Holbrooke Award From Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
“For the past 17 years, one of the standing requirements to receive the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award was a guarantee that the recipient would appear in person in Dayton, Ohio for an on-stage interview and an awards ceremony,” Nicholas A. Raines, executive director of the Dayton foundation, said in a statement. “This year we have decided to waive that requirement and present the award in absentia, to President Jimmy Carter.”
According to Jason Carter, his grandfather’s “most enduring interests have been a devotion to literature and a near-constant pursuit of a peaceful resolution to conflict.”
“It is gratifying to have the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation choose to honour my grandfather with the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award for a lifetime of work melding two of his loves — literature and peace,” Mr. Carter said.
Jimmy Carter Receives Holbrooke Award From Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
On Thursday, the Foundation also announced that Paul Lynch’s “Prophet Song” received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, while Victor Luckerson’s “Built from the Fire” won for Nonfiction.
Lynch and Luckerson will each get $10,000. Fiction runner-up Anne Berest of “The Postcard” and nonfiction finalist Tania Branigan of “Red Memory” will each get $5,000.
SOURCE | AP
