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.

List of winners

* = Member's Choice Award

2012

• Roya Hakakian - "Assassins of the Turquoise Palace"
• Rahul Mehta - "Quarantine"
• Janine Oshiro - "Pier"
• Thaddeus Rutkowski * - "Haywire"

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