The Eighth Annual Asian American
Literary Awards Ceremony

 

 

Monday, December 5, 2005 at the Asia Society in New York City

The 2005 Winners

Brian Leung, World Famous Love Acts
(Sarabande Books) Fiction
presented by Susan Choi

Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Alfred A. Knopf) Nonfiction
presented by Amitava Kumar

Srikanth Reddy, Facts for Visitors
(Univ of California Press) Poetry
presented by Vijay Seshadri

Ishle Yi Park, The Temperature of this Water
(Kaya Press) Poetry-Members' Choice Award
presented by Jessica Hagedorn and Owen Hawk

To listen to the Literary Awards Ceremony, please click on the sections below.

Introduction with Harold Augenbraum and Quang Bao

Members' Choice Award with Jessica Hagedorn and Owen Hawk; Ishle Yi Park

Poetry Award with Vijay Seshadri; Srikanth Reddy

Fiction Award with Susan Choi; Brian Leung

Nonfiction Award with Amitava Kumar; Suketu Mehta







All photographs courtesy of Corky Lee

 

 
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