Apr 23, 2009

Asian American Literary Awards

Here are some books that have recently won awards from the Asian American Writers Workshop.
2008 Winners
Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Harcourt, 2007
Vijay Prashad The Darker Nations, New Press, 2007
Sun Yung Shin Skirt Full of Black, Coffee House Press, 2007
Ed Lin * This Is a Bust, Kaya Press, 2007

2007 Winners
Linh Dinh Borderless Bodies, Factory School, 2006
Amitav Ghosh Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Samrat Upadhyay The Royal Ghosts, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Gene Yuen Yang* American Born Chinese, First Second Books, 2006

The 2009 Asian American Literary Awards will be announced later this year. Earlier awards are listed at
AAWW Awards

4 comments:

  1. Hello! I enjoy reading your reviews! And it's about time you received this award! I'm sending you A Lovely Blog Award! Here it is:
    chickwithbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/lovely-blog-award.html

    Enjoy!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks, Suzanne. Much appreciated!

    ReplyDelete
  3. By the way, Book, Bird, Dog I love your blog. I'm going to follow you.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Thanks for the interest, Tea. Your blog is fun, too.

    ReplyDelete

I appreciate your comments and thoughts...

Voices of the Old and the New: Corky Lee and Julia Alvarez

  NEW RELEASES Corky Lee's Asian America Fifty Years of Photographic Justice by  Corky Lee Publication April 9, 2024; Clarkson Potter/Te...