2007 Kiriyama Prize Finalists

The judges for the Kiriyama Prize chose the two winners from among these five outstanding finalists in each category. Reviews of all of this year's finalists and winners are available on Pacific Rim Voices' WaterBridge Review website.

2007 Fiction Finalists

The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai

Stick Out Your Tongue
by Ma Jian
(Flora Drew translator)

Certainty
by Madeleine Thien

Behold the Many
by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

2007 Nonfiction Finalists

The Haiku Apprentice
by Abigail Friedman

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir
Ernestine Hayes

Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers
by Ruth Padel

Chinese Lessons: An American, His Classmates, and the Story of the New China
by John Pomfret