Kiriyama Prize


2008
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip (fiction)
Julia Whitty - The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (nonfiction)

2007
Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (fiction)
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Three Cups of Tea (nonfiction)

2006
Luis Alberto Urrea - The Hummingbird’s Daughter (fiction)
Piers Vitebsky - The Reindeer People (nonfiction)

2005
Nadeem Aslam - Maps for Lost Lovers (fiction)
Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (nonfiction)

2004
Sa Shan - The Girl Who Played Go (fiction)
Inga Clendinnen - Dancing with Strangers (nonfiction)

2002
Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters (fiction)
Pascal Khoo Thwee - From the Land of Green Ghosts (nonfiction)

2001
Patricia Grace - Dogside Story (fiction)
Peter Hessler - River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (nonfiction)

2000
Michael Ondaatje - Anil’s Ghost (fiction)
Michael David Kwan - Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China (nonfiction)

1999
Cheng Ch’ing-wen - Three-Legged Horse (fiction)
Andrew X. Pham - Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (nonfiction)

1998
Ruth L. Ozeki - My Year of Meats (fiction)*

1997
Patrick Smith - Japan: A Reinterpretation (nonfiction)*

1996
Alan Brown - Audrey Hepburn's Neck (fiction)*

(*)Note: only one Kiriyama Prize, for fiction -or- nonfiction, was awarded in the first three years of the award, 1998, 1997, and 1996.

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