Kiriyama Book Prize - Previous Winners

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The Kiriyama Prize Winner Previous Kiriyama Prize Winners

The Kiriyama Book Prize has been awarded since 1996. In the first three years of the Prize, only one award was given. Beginning with the 1999 Prize cycle, two books were recognized each year, one fiction and one nonfiction. Most of the past Prize winners are still in print. We hope you'll read them and recommend them to your friends and colleagues.

2007 Fiction *Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman* by Haruki Murakami (translated by Phillip Gabriel and Jay Rubin)		2007 Nonfiction *Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time* by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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2006 Fiction *The Hummingbird's Daughter* by Luis Alberto Urrea		2006 Nonfiction *The Reindeer People* by Piers Vitebsky
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2005 Fiction *Maps for Lost Lovers* by Nadeem Aslam		2005 Nonfiction Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta
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2004 Fiction *The Girl Who Played Go* by Shan Sa		2004 Nonfiction *Dancing with Strangers* by Inga Clendinnen
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2002 Fiction *Family Matters* by Rohinton Mistry		2002 Nonfiction *From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey* by Pascal Khoo Thwe
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2001 Fiction *Dogside Story* by Patricia Grace		2001 Nonfiction *River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze*** by Peter Hessler
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2000 Fiction *Anil's Ghost* by Michael Ondaatje		2000 Nonfiction *Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China* by Michael David Kwan
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1999 Fiction *Three-Legged Horse* by Cheng Ch'ing-wen, various translators		1999 Nonfiction *Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Journey through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam* by Andrew X. Pham
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, for fiction OR nonfiction, was awarded in the first three years of the award, 1998, 1997, and 1996.)		1998 Winner *My Year of Meats* (fiction) by Ruth L. Ozeki
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, for fiction OR nonfiction, was awarded in the first three years of the award, 1998, 1997, and 1996.)		1997 Winner *Japan: A Reinterpretation* (nonfiction) by Patrick Smith
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(Only one Kiriyama Prize, for fiction OR nonfiction, was awarded in the first three years of the award, 1998, 1997, and 1996.)		1996 Winner *Audrey Hepburn's Neck* (fiction) by Alan Brown
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