The winners of the 2008 Kiriyama Prize have been announced. The winners were:
Fiction Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Non-Fiction
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other adventures in the South Pacific by
Julia Whitty
From the prize's website: "The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize outstanding books about the Pacific Rim and South Asia that encourage greater mutual understanding of and among the peoples and nations of this vast and culturally diverse region. The Prize consists of a cash award of US $30,000, which is split equally between the fiction and nonfiction winners. Beginning in 2008, if a work in translation is chosen as a winner in either category, the translator will receive $5,000 and the winning author $10,000. "
