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Asian American Literary Awards

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The Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award, voted on by the Workshop's members from the list of that year's entries; and a Lifetime Achievement Award. To be eligible, a book must be written by someone of Asian descent living in the United States and published first in English; entries are actively solicited by the Workshop.

Contents

List of winners

* = Member's Choice Award

2011
  • Yiyun Li - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
  • Kimiko Hahn - Toxic Flora
  • Amitava Kumar - A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm, A Bomb
  • Ed Lin* - Snakes Can't Run: A Mystery
  • Karen Tei Yamashita* - I Hotel
  • 2010
  • Paul Yoon - Once the Shore
  • Minal Hajratwala - Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents
  • Ronaldo V. Wilson - Poems of the Black Object
  • Jason Koo* - Man on Extremely Small Island
  • 2009
  • Jhumpa Lahiri - Unaccustomed Earth
  • Sesshu Foster - World Ball Notebook
  • Leslie T. Chang - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
  • 2008
  • Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations
  • Sun Yung Shin - Skirt Full of Black
  • Ed Lin* - This Is a Bust
  • 2007
  • Linh Dinh - Borderless Bodies
  • Amitav Ghosh - Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
  • Samrat Upadhyay - The Royal Ghosts
  • Gene Luen Yang* - American Born Chinese
  • 2006
  • Jeff Chang - Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation
  • Rattawut Lapcharoensap - Sightseeing
  • Shanxing Wang - Mad Science in Imperial City
  • Ed Bok Lee* - Real Karaoke People
  • 2005
  • Brian Leung World Famous Love Acts
  • Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
  • Srikanth Reddy - Facts for Visitors
  • Ishle Yi Park* - The Temperature of this Water
  • 2004
  • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - Nest
  • Monique Truong - The Book of Salt
  • Vijay Vaitheeswaran - Power to the People
  • Patrick Rosal* - Uprock, Headspin, Scramble and Dive
  • 2003
  • Walter Lew - Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts
  • Meera Nair - Video: Stories
  • Julie Otsuka - When the Emperor was Divine
  • Ed Lin* - Waylaid
  • 2002
  • Alexander Chee - Edinburgh
  • Luis H. Francia - Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago
  • Christina Chiu - Troublemaker and Other Saints
  • Don Lee* - Yellow
  • 2001
  • Ha Jin - The Bridegroom and Other Stories
  • Eugene Gloria - Drivers at the Short Time Motel: Poems
  • Akhil Sharma - An Obedient Father
  • Nick Carbo* - Secret Asian Man
  • 2000
  • Eric Gamalinda - Zero Gravity
  • Chang-rae Lee - A Gesture Life
  • Bino Realuyo* - Umbrella Country
  • 1999
  • Susan Choi - The Foreign Student
  • Arthur Sze - The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-98
  • 1998
  • Mei-mei Berssenbrugge - Endocrinology
  • Lois-Ann Yamanaka - Blu's Hanging
  • Lifetime Achievement Award winners

  • 2009: Sonny Mehta
  • 2008: David Henry Hwang
  • 2006: Maxine Hong Kingston
  • References

    Asian American Literary Awards Wikipedia