Peter Hessler

Peter Hessler

male
KiriyamaPrize, River Town Two Years on the Yangtze, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, University of Oxford, University of Missouri–Columbia
Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is currently the Beijing correspondent for "The New Yorker" and a contributor to "National...
Pascal Khoo Thwe

Pascal Khoo Thwe

male, 42 years old
cambridge university, english literature, burma, nationalism, southeast asia, padaung…KiriyamaPrize
Pascal Khoo Thwe was born into a small tribe in Southeast Asia known as the Padaung in 1967. He was a leading voice in the fight for Burmese...

Andrew X. Pham

male, 42 years old
San Jose, UCLA, Vietnamese American, vietnam war, boat, reeducation camp…KiriyamaPrize, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
Andrew X. Pham (1967 -) is a Vietnamese American author. Pham was born in Vietnam in 1967 and moved to California with his family in 1977 as boat...
Piers Vitebsky

Piers Vitebsky

male
Anthropologist, Siberia, Academic of the University of Cambridge, evens, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute…KiriyamaPrize
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England....