Awards & Winners

Cynthia Kadohata

Date of Birth 02-July-1956
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer
Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer known best for winning the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the U.S. National Book Award in 2013. Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986. Weedflower, her second children's book, was published in Spring 2006. It is about the Poston internment camp where her father was imprisoned during World War II. Her third children's novel, about the Vietnam War from a war dog's perspective, was published in January 2007 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. "Outside Beauty", another children's novel, was published in 2008. It is about a 13-year-old girl and her three sisters, all fathered by different men and what happens when she and her sisters are separated from each other after their mother gets into an accident.

Awards by Cynthia Kadohata

Check all the awards nominated and won by Cynthia Kadohata.

2013


National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Honored for : The Thing About Luck

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Young People's Literature The Thing About Luck

2009


Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Cracker!
6 up

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Weedflower
6 up

2007


Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Older Children
Honored for : Weedflower

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Jane Addams Chldren's Book Awards for Book for Younger Children Weedflower

2006


Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Kira-Kira
5 up

2005


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Kira-Kira

Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal Kira-Kira

1991