Kiriyama PrizeNonfiction

Given by Pacific Rim Voices

Other Names: Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Kiriyama Prize Finalist, Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, Kiryama Prize
44 Works 0 Books
The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of show more this vast and culturally diverse region. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (21), Finalist (84), Notable Book (1), No Stage (1)
Categories:
All, Fiction (43), Nonfiction (44), Notable Book (1), No Category (19)
Years:
All, 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (4)

Winner 9

WorkYear
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific by Julia Whitty2008
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson2007
The Reindeer People: Living With Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky2006
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta2005
Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen2004
From the Land of Green Ghosts : A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe2002
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler2001
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten by Michael David Kwan2000
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham1999

Finalist 35

WorkYear
The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Vintage Departures) by Tom Bissell2008
East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons by Liza Dalby2008
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha2008
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family by Susan Mann2008
The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan by Abigail Friedman2007
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes2007
Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers by Ruth Padel2007
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret2007
Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family by Gail Lee Bernstein2006
Crossing Three Wildernesses by U Sam Oeur2006
A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Shirō Ōyama2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant2006
The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders by Masayo Duus2005
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short2005
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea2005
The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change by Charles Wohlforth2005
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple2004
Out of God 's Oven by Dom Moraes2004
Secrets and Spies by Mara Moustafine2004
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney2004
Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life among Refugees from Burma by Victoria Armour-Hileman2002
Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison2002
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene2002
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran2002
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank2001
Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian2001
Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders by Richard Manning2001
Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai2001
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix2000
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him2000
Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank by Beverley Jackson2000
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia2000
The Mummies of Ürümchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber1999
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower1999
Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood by Riska Orpa Sari1999

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