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Beyond Margins Award Winners

2009  Uwem Akpan for Say You're One of Them

          Juan Felipe Herrera for Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems

          Lily Hoang for Changing


2008  
Chris Abani for Song for Night

           Amiri Baraka for Tales of the Out and the Gone

           Frances Hwang for Transparency

           Naeem Murr for The Perfect Man

           Joseph M. Marshall III for The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn


2007 
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun

Ernest Hardy for Blood Beats, Vol. 1

Harryette Mullen for Recyclopedia

Alberto Ríos for Theater of Night

2006  Richard Blanco for Directions to the Beach of the Dead

Andrew Lam for Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

Ed-Bok Lee for Real Karaoke People

Caryl Phillips for Dancing in the Dark

Jennifer Tseng for The Man With My Face

2005  Faith Adiele for Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

Raquel Cepeda, ed., for And It Don’t Stop:The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years

Lan Samantha Chang for Inheritance

Lolita Hernandez for Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant

Ishle Yi Park for The Temperature of This Water


2004
  Laila Halaby for West of the Jordan: A Novel (Beacon Press)

Suki Kim for The Interpreter (Picador)

Nasdijj for The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping (Ballantine Books)

Willie Perdomo for Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press)

April Reynolds for Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel (Metropolitan Books)


2002   Meena Alexander for Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly Books)

Luis Francia for Eye of the Fish (Kaya Press)

Joy Harjo for A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Victor LaValle for Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories (Vintage Books)

Nelly Rosario for Song of the Water Saints (Pantheon Books)


 

 




 

 
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