Commonwealth Writer's Prize

The Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.



This is a selection of our Commonwealth Writer's Prize section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

A Suitable Boy - trade paperback
By Vikram Seth - $24.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 1994 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's -- and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's -- attempts to find a suitabl...

 

Such a Long Journey - trade paperback
By Rohinton Mistry - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1992 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devote...

 

The Great World: A Novel - Trade Paperback
By David Malouf - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 1991 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Malouf, who is being touted as the successor to the great Patrick White, has written a wonderfully constructed, beautifully phrased nove...

 

Solomon Gursky Was Here - trade paperback
By Mordecai Richler - $20.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Moses Berger is very young when he first hears the name that will obsess him and drive him on a quest across Canada and Europe. His life...

 

Runaway - trade paperback
By Alice Munro - $22.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.Winner of the 2004 Giller Prize.The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary storie...

 



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