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The Cleveland Foundation on Monday evening, April 3, unveiled two winners in the fiction category and one each in nonfiction, poetry and lifetime achievement for the 88th annual awards, which are the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.
Ralph Bunche, in full Ralph Johnson Bunche, (born Aug. 7, 1904, Detroit, Mich., U.S. died Dec. 9, 1971, New York, N.Y.), U.S. diplomat, a key member of the United Nations for more than two decades, and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Peace for his successful negotiation of an Arab-Israeli truce in Palestine the previous year. Bunche worked his way through the University of California at Los Angeles and graduated in 1927. He also earned graduate degrees in government and international relations at Harvard University (1928, 1934) and studied in England and South Africa. In 1928 he joined the faculty