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.^[1]

List of winners[]

* = Member's Choice Award

2012

• Roya Hakakian – "Assassins of the Turquoise Palace"
• Rahul Mehta – "Quarantine"
• – "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
• – Poems of the Black Object
• * – 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 –
• 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
• * – 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
• – 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
• – 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
• * – 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[]