2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

More good news and another amazing honor. HOTEL just won the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature—among a field of notable honorees including Lisa See, Ching Yeung Russell, Sung Woo and Avatar (Just seeing if you’re paying attention).

The full winners list can be found here.

Comments

[Colleen]

Congratulations! The honors keep coming.

[Emma]

Congratulations! I am here from AW. I've just ordered your book and can't wait to read it.

[aunt sue]

all the comments that were said re the award is wonderfully true.....congrats again and much love...

[Johanna Moran]

Wow, Jamie! That's a big honor. Congrats, congrats!

[Eric Stallsworth]

That is awesome. Congrats, Jamie.

Do they send you out a golden trophy for each of these things? That would be really cool. Then you could take a picture dressed up in a tux and dark sunglasses, like any other celebrity.

[Judy Guffey]

It's a great book. Congratulations.

[Jamie]

Thanks y'all! (And Hi Emma--good to see some folks from AW here... :) )

[Joan Mora]

Well deserved!

[Maryke]

Woot! Congratulations Jamie!!

[E. Ann Bardawill]

I am just thrilled to bits for you. Well done, Jamie! Take a butt squeeze out of petty cash.

[Yvonne Vitosky]

Well done, Jamie, truly well-deserved. Hotel was definitely an interesting and satisfying reads--I'm not giving my copy away. Selfish, I know . . . I may loan it! I will, however , continue to pass the good word about this fabulous book and your recent awards. Kudos to you!!!!
Yvonne V.

[Kathy Gleich]

As someone who grew up post WW2 in Seattle (DOB 1947, '65 graduate of Franklin) you have captured a time and place wrapped around a tender love story so beautifully. I learned a lot about my home town and about what I thought of as the exotic International District. I used to ride the #10 bus line that went from Mt. Baker to Capitol Hill on trolley wires on Jackson Street and up 3rd Ave. through downtown (we used to splurge for lunch at Rhodes - F&N was too uptown for us) and I remember staring into the windows of the Black & Tan club from the bus and wondering what went on there. Thank you for getting me inside with Henry & Keiko through your book. I am very happy for you and all the awards it has won, most lately this one! Hooray for "Corner..." and Jamie Ford! I love your book and it deserves awards and most especially, to be read. May it be added to reading lists for high schools soon.

[Jamie]

Thanks Kathy! Glad that you remember Rhodes--and F&N. Now all that's left of F&N are Frangos...