The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, begun in 1996, is cosponsored by the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Foundation. The $30,000 prize is awarded each year to recognize books that promote greater understanding among people of the Pacific Rim.
2005
2004
Fiction:
The Girl
Who
Played Go / Shan Sa (Winner)
Brick Lane
/ Monica Ali
My Life as
a
Fake / Peter Carey
The Great
Fire / Shirley Hazzard
The Guru of
Love / Samrat Upadhyay
2003
2002
Fiction:
Family
Matters / Rohinton Mistry (Winner)
Red Poppies
/ Alai
Melal: A
Novel of the Pacific / Robert Barclay
The Girl
From the Coast / Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Dirt Music
/ Tim Winton
Nonfiction:
From the
Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey / Pascal Khoo Thwe (Winner)
Singing
to the Dead: A Missioner's Life Among Refugees From Burma /
Victoria
Armour-Hileman
Korean
Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement / Selig
S.
Harrison
Emperor of
Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 / Donald Keene
The Good Women
of China: Hidden Voices / Xinran
2001
Fiction:
Dogside
Story / Patricia Grace (Winner)
The
Ash Garden / Dennis Bock
Here's
to You, Jesusa!
/ Elena
Poniatowska
American
Son / Brian Ascalon Roley
The
Death of Vishnu / Manil Suri
Nonfiction:
River
Town / Peter Hessler (Winner)
Indira:
the Life of Indira Nehru Ghandi / Katherine Frank
Red
Dust: A Path Through China / Ma Jian
Inside
Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders / Richard Manning
Perpetual
Happiness: The Ming Emperor Yongle / Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
2000
Fiction:
Anil's
Ghost / Michael Ondaatje (Winner)
The
Toughest Indian in the World / Sherman Alexie
The
Hero's Walk / Anita Rau Badami
The
Years With Laura Diaz / Carlos Fuentes
The
Australian Fiance / Simone Lazaroo
Nonfiction:
Things
That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China / David
Michael Kwan (Winner)
Hirohito
and the Making of Modern Japan / Herbert Bix
When
Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge / Chanrithy
Him
Ladder
to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank / Beverley
Jackson and David Hugus
Asian
American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People / Simone
Lazaroo
1999
Three-Legged
Horse / Cheng Ch'ing-Wen (Co-winner)
Catfish
and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of
Vietnam / Andrew X. Pham (Co-winner)
The
Book of Perceptions / Truong Tran
The Spring Tone / Kazumi Yumoto
The
Mummies of Urumchi / Elizabeth W. Barber
Embracing
Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II / John W. Dower
Riska:
Memories of a Dayak Girlhood / Riska Orpa Sari
1998
My Year of
Meats / Ruth L. Ozeki (Winner)
Galapagos:
Islands Born of Fire / Tui De Roy
Under
the Red Flag / Ha Jin
Cambodia:
Report From A Stricken Land / Henry Kamm
The
Electrical Field / Kerri Sakamoto
Golden
Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia / James L. Watson
1997
Japan: A
Reinterpretation / Patrick Smith (Winner)
Monkey Bridge / Lan Cao
Korea's
Place in the Sun: A Modern History / Bruce Cumings
The
Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders / Donald Denoon
Chinese
Opera: Images and Stories / Siu Wang-Ngai and Peter Lovrick
The River at the Center of the World / Simon Winchester
1996
Audrey Hepburn's Neck / Alan Brown (Winner)
Japan
and the Enemies of Open Political Science / David Williams
Hiroshima Forever: The Ecology of Mourning / Michael Perlman
The Weight of the Yen / R. Taggart Murphy
East
to America: Korean American Life Stories / Elaine H. Kim and
Eui-Young Yu, Editors
Virgin Widows / Gu Hua, et al.