Paul Theroux and Joe Tsujimoto are the winners of the 2009 Elliot Cades Awards for Literature, presented by the Hawai'i Literary Arts Council.

They will be honored at the Hawai'i Book and Music Festival and will give readings from 4 to 5:30 p.m. May 16 at the Mission Memorial Auditorium on the grounds of the Honolulu Municipal Center.

The prolific Theroux, who divides his time between his North Shore and Cape Cod homes, is the author of more than 30 fiction works (novels and short story collections) and 16 books of non-fiction. His latest is a novel, "A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta." He has won numerous awards and is perhaps best known for his caustic and witty commentary on various far-flung places in such works as "The Great Railway Bazaar" (1975), "Kingdom by the Sea" (1983), "The Happy Isles of Oceania" (1992), "Riding the Iron Rooster" (1988) and "Dark Star Safari" (2002).

Joe Tsujimoto, a native New Yorker, teaches English at Punahou School and is the author of a short story collections, "Morningside Heights: New York Fictions" (Bamboo Ridge Press, 2007) and "Lighting Fires: How the Passionate Teacher Engages Adolescent Writers" (Boynton/Cook, 2001). The short story collection is a series of semi-autobigraphical works about the coming of age in the 1960s of a Japanese American boy, whose parents moved to New York after having been interred during World War II. It has been critically praised both here and elsewhere, as has his non-fiction work on how to motivate young writers.