Asian American Literary Award

Given by Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW)

56 Works 28,648 Books 1,165 Reviews ½ 3.9
Stages:
All, Winner (55), Shortlist (1)
Categories:
Years:
All, 2012 (4), 2011 (5), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (4), 2003 (4), 2002 (4), 2001 (5), 2000 (3), 1999 (2), 1998 (2)

Winner 55

WorkCategoryYear
Haywire by Thaddeus RutkowskiMember's Choice Award2012
Assassins of the Turquoise Palace by Roya Hakakian2012
Quarantine: Stories by Rahul Mehta2012
Pier by Janine Oshiro2012
Snakes Can't Run: A Mystery (Thomas Dunne Books) by Ed LinMember's Choice Award2011
I Hotel by Karen Tei YamashitaMember's Choice Award2011
Toxic Flora: Poems by Kimiko Hahn2011
A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar2011
Gold boy, emerald girl by Yiyun Li2011
Man on Extremely Small Island by Jason KooMember's Choice Award2010
Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents by Minal Hajratwala2010
Poems of the Black Object by Ronaldo V. Wilson2010
Once the Shore by Paul Yoon2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang2009
World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster2009
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri2009
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidFiction2008
This Is a Bust by Ed LinMember's Choice Award2008
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay PrashadNon-Fiction2008
Skirt Full of Black by Sun Yung ShinPoetry2008
The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat UpadhyayFiction2007
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen YangMember's Choice Award2007
Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times by Amitav GhoshNon-Fiction2007
Borderless Bodies by Linh DinhPoetry2007
Sightseeing by Rattawut LapcharoensapFiction2006
Real Karaoke People (Many Voices Project) by Ed Bok LeeMember's Choice Award2006
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff ChangNon-Fiction2006
Mad Science in Imperial City by Shanxing WangPoetry2006
World Famous Love Acts by Brian LeungFiction2005
The Temperature of This Water by Ishle ParkMember's Choice Award2005
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu MehtaNon-Fiction2005
Facts for Visitors: Poems (New California Poetry, 12) by Srikanth ReddyPoetry2005
The Book of Salt by Monique TruongFiction2004
Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive: Poems by Patrick RosalMember's Choice Award2004
Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet by Vijay V. VaitheeswaranNon-Fiction2004
Nest by Mei-Mei BerssenbruggePoetry2004
Video: Stories by Meera NairFiction2003
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie OtsukaFiction2003
Waylaid by Ed LinMember's Choice Award2003
Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Works by Walter K. LewPoetry2003
Edinburgh by Alexander CheeFiction2002
Troublemaker and Other Saints by Christina ChiuFiction2002
Yellow: Stories by Don LeeMember's Choice Award2002
Eye Of The Fish by Luis FranciaNon-Fiction2002
The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha JinFiction2001
An Obedient Father by Akhil SharmaFiction2001
Secret Asian Man by Nick CarboMember's Choice Award2001
Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (National Poetry Series) by Eugene GloriaPoetry2001
Zero Gravity by Eric GamalindaFiction2000
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae LeeFiction2000
The Umbrella Country (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Bino A. RealuyoMember's Choice Award2000
The Redshifting Web: New & Selected Poems by Arthur SzePoetry1999
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi1999
Endocrinology: poetry by Mei-Mei BerssenbruggePoetry1998
Blu's Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka1998

Shortlist 1

WorkYear
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies2001

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