

The Children’s Literature Committee has selected When You Trap a Tiger written by Tae Keller, published by Random House Children’s Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books a division of Penguin Random House as the Children’s Literature Award Winner. The honor title is Displacement by Kiku Hughes, published by First Second, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. The Youth Literature Committee has selected This Light Between Us written by Andrew Fukuda, published by Tor Teen Book as the Youth Literature Award Winner. The honor title is Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films by Arthur Dong, published by Angel City Press. The Adult Non-Fiction Committee has selected America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States written by Erika Lee, published by Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group as the Adult Non-Fiction winner. The honor title is How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa, published by Little, Brown and Company.

The APALA Adult Literature Fiction committee has selected How Much of These Hills is Gold: A Novel written by C Pam Zhang published by Riverhead Books as the Adult Fiction winner. Here are the winners and honor titles of the 2020-2021 Literature Awards: Adult Fiction Each committee select a winning title for the category.

There are five categories for the Awards. The awards promote Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage and are awarded to titles published from September 2019 to August 2020 based on their literary and artistic merit. Janu2021 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Winners SelectedĬhicago – The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association, has selected the winners of the 2020-2021 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL).

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