The Annual Asian American Literary Awards were presented in December. These awards began in 1998. This year, the winners were:

• Fiction Award: Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt)
• Nonfiction Award: Vijay Prashad for The Darker Nations (New Press)
• Poetry Award Sun Yung Shin for Skirt Full of Black (Coffee House Press)

They also presented a lifetime achievement award to Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, especially noted for his play, M. Butterfly.

These awards are presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop.