Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
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2017
Adult Fiction
Winner: The leavers by Lisa Ko
Honor: The refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Asianfail : narratives of disenchantment and the model minority by
Eleanor Ty
Honor: The long afterlife of Nikkei wartime incarceration by Karen M. Inouye
Young Adult
Winner: It's not like it's a secret by Misa Sugiura
Honor: Saints & misfits
by S. K. Ali
Children's
Winner: Step up to
the plate, Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami
Honor: Cilla Lee-Jenkins :
future author extraordinaire by Susan Tan, illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte
Picture Book
Winner: A different pond
written by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui
Honor: The Nian
monster written by Andrea Wang, illustrated by Alina Chau
2016
Adult Fiction
Winner: Deceit and
other possibilities : stories by Vanessa Hua
Honor: The fortunes
by Peter Ho Davies
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Picture bride stories by Barbara Kawakami
Honor: Changing season : a father, a daughter, a family farm by Mas and
Nikko Masumoto
Young Adult
Winner: Outrun the
moon by Stacey Lee
Honor: Watched by
Marina Budhos
Children's
Winner: The land of
forgotten girls by Erin Entrada Kelly
Honor: Momotaro Xander and the lost island of monsters by Margaret Dilloway
Picture Book
Winner: Puddle by
Hyewon Yum
2015
Adult Fiction
Winner: The
sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Honor: Don't let him know : a novel in stories by Sandip Roy
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: The making of
Asian America : a history by Erika Lee
Honor: From Canton
Restaurant to Panda Express : a history of Chinese food in the United States
by Haiming Liu; The good immigrants : how the yellow peril became the model
minority by Madeline Y. Hsu
Young Adult
Winner: P.S. I still
love you by Jenny Han
Honor: Ink and ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
Children's
Winner: Full cicada
moon by Marilyn Hilton
Honor: Blackbird fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
Picture Book
Winner: Juna's Jar by Jane Bahk ; illustrated by Felicia Hoshino
Honor: Drum dream
girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Margarita Engle ; illustrated
by Rafael López
2014
Adult Fiction
Winner: Everything I
never told you : a novel by Celeste Ng
Honor: The Sleepwalker's guide to dancing by Mira Jacob
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Dubious
gastronomy : the cultural politics of eating Asian in the USA by Robert Ji-Song
Ku
Honor: Big little man : in search of my Asian self by Alex Tizon
Young Adult
Winner: Tiger girl : a novel by May-Lee Chai
Honor: The shadow
hero by Gene Luen Yang ; illustrated by Sonny Liew
Children's
Winner: Gaijin : American prisoner of war : a graphic novel by Matt Faulkner
Honor: Ting Ting by Kristie Hammond
Picture Book
Winner: Hana
Hashimoto, sixth violin by Chieri Uegaki ; illustrated by Qin Leng
Honor: Father's Chinese opera by Rich Lo
2013
Adult Fiction
Winner: A tale for
the time being by Ruth Ozeki
Honor: The gods of heavenly punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Citizens of Asian America : democracy and race during the Cold War by
Cindy I-Fen Cheng
Honor: Garden of the world : Asian immigrants and the making of agriculture in
California's Santa Clara Valley by Cecilia M. Tsu
Picture Book
Winner: Red kite,
blue kite by Ji-li Jiang ; illustrated by Greg Ruth
Honor: Barbed wire
baseball by Marissa Moss ; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
Children's Literature
Winner: The thing
about luck by
Cynthia Kadohata ; illustrated by Julia Kuo
Honor: The Vine
basket by Josanne La Valley
Young Adult Literature
Winner: Jet Black and
the ninja wind by Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani
Honor: Gadget Girl :
the art of being invisible by
Suzanne Kamata
2012
Picture Book
Winner: Good fortune in a wrapping cloth by Joan Schoettler ;
illustrated by Jessica Lanan
Honor: A path of stars by Anne O'Brien Sibley
Children's Literature
Winner: Chengli and the silk road caravan by Hildi
Kang
Honor: The Shark King
: a Toon book by R. Kikuo Johnson
Young Adult Literature
Winner: Tina's mouth
: an existential comic diary by Keshni Kashyap
Honor: Ichiro by Ryan Inzana
Adult Fiction
Winner: The collective : a novel by Don Lee
Honor: Drifting house by Krys Lee
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner : The third Asiatic invasion empire and migration in Filipino America,
1898-1946 by Rick Baldoz
Honor: Forbidden citizens : Chinese exclusion and the U.S. Congress : a
legislative history by Martin B. Gold
2011
Picture Book
Winner: The house
Baba built : an artist's childhood in China by Ed Young
Honor: Hot, hot roti
for Dada-ji by F. Zia ; illustrated by Ken Min
Children's Literature
Winner: The great
wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Honor: Vanished by Sheela
Chari
Young Adult Literature
Winner: Orchards by Holly
Thompson
Honor: Level up
by Gene Luen Yang ; illustrated by Thien Pham
Adult Fiction
Winner: The
submission by Amy
Waldman
Honor: Leche : a novel by R. Zamora Linmark
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: The woman who could not forget : Iris Chang before and beyond The rape
of Nanking by Ying-Ying Chang
Honor: The Bangladeshi diaspora in the United States after 9/11 : from obscurity
to high visibility by Shafiqur Rahman
2010
Picture Book
Winner: Yasmin's
Hammer by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Doug Chayka
Honor: Fly free! by Roseanne
Thong ; illustrated by Eujin Kim Neilan
Children's Literature
Winner: Heart of a
samurai : based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama by Margi Preus
Honor: Bamboo people by Mitali Perkins
Young Adult Literature
Winner: Shooting
Kabul by N. H. Senzai
Honor: A boy of Heart Mountain by Barbara Bazaldua ; illustrated by Willie Ito
Adult Fiction
Winner: I Hotel
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Honor: Bitter in the mouth by Monique Truong
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Angel Island : immigration gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
Honor: Charlie Chan :
the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American
history by Yunte Huang;
You have given me a country by Neela Vaswani
2009
Adult Fiction
Winner: Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel by Jamie Ford
Honor: Shanghai girls : a novel by Lisa See
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: American Chinatown : a people's history of five neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui
Honor: Japanese American resettlement : through the lens by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Picture Book
Winner: Cora cooks
pancit by Dorina K. Lazo
Gilmore ; illustrated by Kristi Valiant
Honor: Tan to
tamarind : poems about the color brown by Michelle Iyengar Malathi ; illustrated by Jamel Akib
Youth Literature
Winner: Everything Asian by Sung J. Woo
Honor: Tofu quilt
by Ching Yeung Russell
2008
Adult Fiction
Winner: Unaccustomed
earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Honor: Steer toward rock by Fae Myenne Ng
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: The fortune
cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food by Jennifer 8
Lee
Honor: The eaves of heaven : a life in three wars by Andrew X. Pham;
The latehomecomer : a
Hmong family memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Picture Book
Winner: Wabi Sabi
by Mark Reibstein ; illustrated by Ed Young
Honor: Monsoon
afternoon by Kashmira Sheth ; illustrated by
Yoshiko Jaeggi
Youth Literature
Winner: Roots and wings by Many
Ly
Honor: 1001 cranes by Naomi Hirahara; Good enough by Paula Yoo
2007
Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Driven out :
the forgotten war against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer
Honor: Bento box in the heartland : my Japanese girlhood in whitebread America
by Linda Furiya
Picture Book
Winner: Surfer of the
century : the life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe ; illustrated by Richard Waldrep
Honor: Hiromi's hands
by Lynne Barasch
Youth Literature
Winner: Hiroshima Dreams by Kelly
Easton-Ruben
Honor: Keeping corner
by Kashmira Sheth
2006
Adult Fiction
Winner: Brothers : a novel by Da Chen
Honor: Color of the
sea by John Hamamura
Picture Book
Winner: The legend of
Hong Kil Dong, the Robin Hood of Korea by Anne Sibley O'Brien
Honor: Brothers by Yin ; illustrated by Chris Soentpiet
Youth Literature
Winner: Nothing but the truth : (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen
Honor: The year of
the dog : a novel by Grace Lin
2005
Adult Literature
Winner: Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
Honor: Snow flower
and the secret fan : a novel by Lisa See;
Saving fish from
drowning by Amy Tan
Picture Book
Winner: The
firekeeper's son by Linda Sue Park ; illustrated by Julie Downing
Honor: Bread song by Frederick Lipp ; illustrated by Jason Gaillard;
Sixteen years in
sixteen seconds : the Sammy Lee story by Paula Yoo ; illustrated by Dom Lee
Youth Literature
Winner: Kira-kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Honor: Project
Mulberry : a novel by Linda Sue Park; Shanghai messenger by Andrea Cheng ;
illustrated by Ed Young
2001
Adult Fiction Award:
Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel
Children's Illustrator Award
Winner: Apple pie 4th
of July by Janet S. Wong ; illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Honor: Tanuki's gift : a Japanese tale by Tim Myer ; illustrated by Robert Roth;
Coolies by Yin ; illustrated by Chris Soentpiet
Children and Young Adult Author Award
Winner: A step from
heaven by Na An
Honor: Born confused
by Tanuja Desai Hidier; Beacon Hill boys by Ken
Mochizuki; A single
shard by Linda Sue Park