Asian American Literary Awards

The Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award, voted on by the Workshop's members from the list of that year's entries; and a Lifetime Achievement Award. To be eligible, a book must be written by someone of Asian descent living in the United States and published first in English; entries are actively solicited by the Workshop.

List of winners
* = Member's Choice Award


 * 1998
 * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Endocrinology
 * Lois-Ann Yamanaka – Blu's Hanging


 * 1999
 * Susan Choi – The Foreign Student
 * Arthur Sze – The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–98


 * 2000
 * Eric Gamalinda – Zero Gravity
 * Chang-rae Lee – A Gesture Life
 * Bino Realuyo* – Umbrella Country


 * 2001
 * Ha Jin – The Bridegroom and Other Stories
 * Eugene Gloria – Drivers at the Short Time Motel: Poems
 * Akhil Sharma – An Obedient Father
 * Nick Carbo* – Secret Asian Man


 * 2002
 * Alexander Chee – Edinburgh
 * Luis H. Francia – Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago
 * Christina Chiu – Troublemaker and Other Saints
 * Don Lee* – Yellow


 * 2003
 * Walter Lew – Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts
 * Meera Nair – Video: Stories
 * Julie Otsuka – When the Emperor was Divine
 * Ed Lin* – Waylaid


 * 2004
 * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Nest
 * Monique Truong – The Book of Salt
 * Vijay Vaitheeswaran – Power to the People
 * Patrick Rosal* – Uprock, Headspin, Scramble and Dive


 * 2005
 * Brian Leung 	World Famous Love Acts
 * Suketu Mehta – Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
 * Srikanth Reddy – Facts for Visitors
 * Ishle Yi Park* – The Temperature of this Water


 * 2006
 * Jeff Chang – Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation
 * Rattawut Lapcharoensap – Sightseeing
 * Shanxing Wang – Mad Science in Imperial City
 * Ed Bok Lee* – Real Karaoke People


 * 2007
 * Linh Dinh – Borderless Bodies
 * Amitav Ghosh – Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times
 * Samrat Upadhyay – The Royal Ghosts
 * Gene Luen Yang* – American Born Chinese


 * 2008
 * Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist
 * Vijay Prashad – The Darker Nations
 * Sun Yung Shin – Skirt Full of Black
 * Ed Lin* – This Is a Bust


 * 2009
 * Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth
 * Sesshu Foster – World Ball Notebook
 * Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China


 * 2010
 * Paul Yoon – Once the Shore
 * Minal Hajratwala – Leaving India: My Family's Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents
 * Ronaldo V. Wilson – Poems of the Black Object
 * Jason Koo* – Man on Extremely Small Island


 * 2011
 * Yiyun Li – Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
 * Kimiko Hahn – Toxic Flora
 * Amitava Kumar – A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm, A Bomb
 * Ed Lin* – Snakes Can't Run: A Mystery
 * Karen Tei Yamashita* – I Hotel


 * 2012
 * Roya Hakakian – Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
 * Rahul Mehta – Quarantine
 * Janine Oshiro – Pier
 * Thaddeus Rutkowski * – Haywire

Lifetime Achievement Award winners

 * 2006: Maxine Hong Kingston
 * 2008: David Henry Hwang
 * 2009: Sonny Mehta