Asian American Literary Awards
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.[1]
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
- ↑ AAWW Awards list, accessed 7 August 2010.
See also
- Asian American literature
- Chinese American literature
- List of Asian American writers
- List of American writers of Korean descent
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature