Author Sandra Cisneros is this year’s winner of the Ambassador Richard C.
FILE - Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros talks about a new art exhibit based by her 1984 novel"The House On Mango Street" at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 27, 2016. Cisneros is this year's winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring writers who help foster"understanding between and among people. – Author Sandra Cisneros is this year's winner of the Ambassador Richard C.
The Holbrooke award, named for the late U.S. diplomat, is presented by the Ohio-based Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. In 1995, Holbrooke helped broker the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian War, a conflict Cisneros has thought of often. “The repercussions of the Bosnian War have shaped me as both a writer and a human being. I have aspired in my life to strive for unity. I’m enormously gratified to be honored with a prize focusing on peace.”
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