Asian American Literary Awards

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

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