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.AAWW Awards list , accessed 7 August 2010.
List of winners * = Member's Choice Award
1998 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Endocrinology Lois-Ann Yamanaka – Blu's Hanging
1999 Susan Choi – The Foreign Student Arthur Sze – The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–98
2000 Eric Gamalinda – Zero Gravity Chang-rae Lee – A Gesture Life Bino Realuyo* – Umbrella Country
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
2002 Alexander Chee – Edinburgh Luis H. Francia – Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago Christina Chiu – Troublemaker and Other Saints Don Lee* – Yellow
2003 Walter Lew – Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts Meera Nair – Video: Stories Julie Otsuka – When the Emperor was Divine Ed Lin* – Waylaid
2004 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Nest Monique Truong – The Book of Salt Vijay Vaitheeswaran – Power to the People Patrick Rosal* – Uprock, Headspin, Scramble and Dive
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
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
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
2008 Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist Vijay Prashad – The Darker Nations Sun Yung Shin – Skirt Full of Black Ed Lin* – This Is a Bust
2009 Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth Sesshu Foster – World Ball Notebook Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
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
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
2012 Roya Hakakian – Assassins of the Turquoise Palace Rahul Mehta – Quarantine Janine Oshiro – Pier Thaddeus Rutkowski * – Haywire
Lifetime Achievement Award winners 2006: Maxine Hong Kingston 2008: David Henry Hwang 2009: Sonny Mehta
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
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