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Kiriyama Prize
Book awards: Kiriyama Prize
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Works (21)
Titles
Order
Audrey Hepburns Neck
by
Alan Brown
1996
Japan: A Reinterpretation
by
Patrick Smith
1997
My Year of Meats
by
Ruth L. Ozeki
1998
Catfish and Mandala
by
Andrew X. Pham
Nonfiction, 1999
Three-Legged Horse
by
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
Fiction, 1999
Anil’s Ghost
by
Michael Ondaatje
Fiction, 2000
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China
by
Michael David Kwan
Nonfiction, 2000
Dogside Story (Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature)
by
Patricia Grace
Fiction, 2001
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by
Peter Hessler
Nonfiction, 2001
Family Matters
by
Rohinton Mistry
Fiction, 2002
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by
Pascal Khoo Thwe
Nonfiction, 2002
Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
by
Inga Clendinnen
Nonfiction, 2004
The Girl Who Played Go
by
Shan Sa
Fiction, 2004
Maps for Lost Lovers
by
Nadeem Aslam
Fiction, 2005
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by
Suketu Mehta
Nonfiction, 2005
The Hummingbird's Daughter
by
Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction, 2006
The Reindeer People: Living With Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by
Piers Vitebsky
Nonfiction, 2006
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
by
Haruki Murakami
Fiction, 2007
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
by
Greg Mortenson
Nonfiction, 2007
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific
by
Julia Whitty
Nonfiction, 2008
Mister Pip
by
Lloyd Jones
Fiction, 2008
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Book awards authors (21)
Nadeem Aslam
Alan Brown
Cheng Ch'ing-Wen
Inga Clendinnen
Patricia Grace
Peter Hessler
Lloyd Jones
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Rohinton Mistry
Greg Mortenson
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Shan Sa
Patrick Smith
Pascal Khoo Thwe
Luis Alberto Urrea
Piers Vitebsky
Julia Whitty
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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 this vast and culturally diverse region.
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