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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.<ref>[http://aaww.org/aaww_awards.html AAWW Awards list], accessed 7 August 2010.</ref> |
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.<ref>[http://aaww.org/aaww_awards.html AAWW Awards list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718223825/http://www.aaww.org/aaww_awards.html |date=2011-07-18 }}, accessed 7 August 2010.</ref> |
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==List of winners== |
==List of winners== |
Revision as of 15:12, 10 July 2017
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
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
References
- ^ AAWW Awards list Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 7 August 2010.