Kiriyama Prize - Previous Finalists

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Each year the judges for the Prize choose five finalists in each category, fiction and nonfiction. The winners are then chosen from among the finalists. Each of these books therefore represent some of the most outstanding books submitted for the Prize in a given year.

Until 1999, only one Prize was awarded, so there was only one "shortlist" of finalists for the 1996, 1997, and 1998 awards. These earlier shortlists therefore include both fiction and nonfiction titles.

2007 Fiction *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 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
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2006 Fiction *The Lizard Cage* by Karen Connelly *The Hungry Tide* by Amitov Ghosh *A Thousand Years of Good Prayers* by Yiyun Li *The Train to Lo Wu* by Jess Row		2006 Nonfiction Isami's House by Gail Lee Bernstein A Man With No Talents by Oyama Shiro (translated from the Japanese by Edward Fowler) Crossing Three Wildernesses by U Sam Ouer The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
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2005 Fiction *The Sari Shop* by Rupa Bajwa *War Trash* by Ha Jin *Grace is Gone* by Kelly Ana Morey *Seasons of the Palm* by Perumal Murugan (translated from the original Tamil by V. Geetha)		2005 Nonfiction *The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders* by Masayo Duus (translated from the original Japanese by Peter Duus) Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare by Philip Short The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea *The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change* by Charles Wohlforth
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2004 Fiction *Brick Lane* by Monica Ali *My Life as a Fake* by Peter Carey *The Great Fire* by Shirley Hazzard *The Guru of Love* by Samrat Upadhyay		2004 Nonfiction *White Mughals* by William Dalrymple Secrets and Spies by Mara Moustafine Out of God's Oven: Travels in a Fractured Land by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa *Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History* by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
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2002 Fiction *Red Poppies* by Alai Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin. *Melal: A Novel of the Pacific* by Robert Barclay *The Girl From the Coast* by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Translated by Willem Samuels. *Dirt Music* by Tim Winton		2002 Nonfiction *Singing to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees From Burma* by Victoria Armour-Hileman Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement by Selig S. Harrison Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran Translated by Esther Tyldesley
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2001 Fiction *The Ash Garden* by Dennis Bock *Here's to You, Jesusa!* by Elena Poniatowska, translated by Deanna Heikkinen *American Son* by Brian Ascalon Roley *The Death of Vishnu* by Manil Suri		2001 Nonfiction *Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi* by Katherine Frank *Red Dust: A Path Through China* by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew *Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders* by Richard Manning *Perpetual Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle* by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
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2000 Fiction *The Toughest Indian in the World* by Sherman Alexie *The Hero's Walk* by Anita Rau Badami *The Years with Laura Díaz* by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam *The Australian Fiancé* by Simone Lazaroo		2000 Nonfiction *Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan* by Herbert Bix *When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge* by Chanrithy Him *Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank* by Beverley Jackson and David Hugus *Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People* by Helen Zia
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1999 Fiction *The Book of Perceptions* by Truong Tran *The Spring Tone* by Kazumi Yumoto		1999 Nonfiction *The Mummies of Ürümchi* by Elizabeth W. Barber *Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II* by John Dower *Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood* by Riska Orpa Sari with Linda Spalding (editor)
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, awarded for either fiction OR nonfiction, was offered in 1996, 1997, and 1998.)		1998 Finalists *Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire* by Tui DeRoy *Under the Red Flag* by Ha Jin *Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land* by Henry Kamm *The Electrical Field* by Kerri Sakamoto *Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia* James L. Watson, editor
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, awarded for either fiction OR nonfiction, was offered in 1996, 1997, and 1998.)		1997 Finalists *Monkey Bridge* by Lan Cao *Korea's Place in the Sun* by Bruce Cumings *The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders* Donald Denoon et al., editor *Chinese Opera: Images and Stories* by Siu Wang-Ngai and Peter Lovrick *The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time* by Simon Winchester
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, awarded for either fiction OR nonfiction, was offered in 1996, 1997, and 1998.)		1996 Finalists *Virgin Widows* by Gu Hua, translated by Howard Goldblatt *East to America: Korean American Life Stories* by Elaine H. Kim and Eui-Young Yu *The Weight of the Yen* by R. Taggart Murphy *Hiroshima Forever: The Ecology of Mourning* by Michael Perlman *Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science* by David Williams
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