The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Fiction

Note: Pacific Rim Voices is grateful for the interest and recognition the Kiriyama Prize has received over the last twelve years. At the present time the Kiriyama Prize is being restructured. While this process is under way, publishers are kindly asked not to submit further entries. When a new time line and new rules are in place, entries will once again be welcome. September 14 2008

2008

Mister Pip Winner

Lloyd Jones

The Complete Stories

David Malouf

The Last Chinese Chef

Nicole Mones

Mosquito

Roma Tearne

I Love Dollars

Zhu Wen, translated by Julia Lovell

2007

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Winner

Haruki Murakami (Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin translators)

The Inheritance of Loss

Kirin Desai

Stick Out Your Tongue

Ma Jian (Flora Drew translator)

Certainty

Madeleine Thien

Behold the Many

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

2006

The Hummingbird's daughter Winner

Luis Alberto Urrea

The Lizard Cage

Karen Connelly

The Hungry Tide

Amitav Ghosh

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Yiyun Li

The Train to Lo Wu

Jess Row

2005

• Maps for Lost Lovers Nadeem Aslam Winner
• The Sari Shop Rupa Bajwa
• War Trash Ha Jin
• Grace is Gone Kelly Ana Morey
• Seasons of the Palm Perumal Murugan (translated by V. Geetha)

2003/2004

• 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

2002

• Family matters Rohinton Mistry Winner
• Red poppies Alai, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
• Melal: A Novel of the Pacific Robert Barclay
• The Girl from the Coast Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels
• Dirt music Tim Winton

2001

• Dogside Story Patricia Grace Winner
• The Ash Garden Dennis Bock
• Here's to you, Jesusa! Elena Poniatowska, translated by Deanna Heikkinen
• American son Brian Ascalon Roley
• The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri

2000

• 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 Díaz Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alfred MacAdam
• The Australian fiancé Simone Lazaroo

1999

• Three-Legged horse Cheng Ch'ing-wen Winner
• The Book of perceptions Truong Tran
• The Spring tone Kazumi Yumoto, translated by Cathy Hirano