The Kiriyama Prize

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2008
Fiction
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Nonfiction
The fragile edge : diving and other adventures in the South Pacific by Julia Whitty

2007
Fiction
Blind willow, sleeping woman : twenty-four stories by Haruki Murakami ; translated by Phillip Gabriel and Jay Rubin
Nonfiction
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace . . . one school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

2006
Fiction
The hummingbird's daughter : a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
Nonfiction
The reindeer people : living with animals and spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky

2005
Fiction
Maps for lost lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Nonfiction
Maximum city : Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta

2004
Fiction
The girl who played go by Shan Sa
Nonfiction
Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact by Inga Clendinnen

2002
Fiction
Family matters by Rohinton Mistry
Nonfiction
From the land of green ghosts : a Burmese odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe

2001
Fiction
Dogside story by Patricia Grace
Nonfiction
River town : two years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

2000
Fiction
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Nonfiction
Things that must not be forgotten : a childhood in wartime China by David Michael Kwan

1999
Fiction
Three-legged horse by Cheng Ch'ing-wen, various translators
Nonfiction
Catfish and Mandala : a two-wheeled journey through the landscape and memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham

1998
My year of meats by Ruth L. Ozeki (fiction)

1997
Japan : a reinterpretation by Patrick Smith (nonfiction)

1996
Audrey Hepburn's neck by Alan Brown (fiction)