Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Regional Winners Selected
Regional winners for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced on March 4. The awards were established in 1987 in order to recognize both new and established fiction writers from Commonwealth countries. Prizes for Best Book and Best First Book are awarded in four regions–Africa, South East Asia and Pacific, Caribbean and Canada, and South Asia and Europe. The regional winners in each category are then considered for the pan-Commonwealth Prize, to be announced on May 21, 2011.
Best Book
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Africa)
Room by Emma Donoghue (Caribbean and Canada)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (South Asia and Europe)
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Southeast Asia and Pacific)
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Best First Book
Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele (Africa)
Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best (Caribbean and Canada)
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller (South Asia and Europe)
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (Southeast Asia and Pacific)
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The Room seems to be cleaning up in the Canadian awards department – I can’t seem to bring myself to read it, though.