Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners Announced - McNally Robinson Booksellers

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winners Announced
by Ryan McBride - Thursday May 22 2008 3:54 pm
Posted in: Awards

Lawrence Hill's Book of Negroes has won for Best Overall Book.

Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age has won for Best First Book.

The prize was established 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", according to the award's website.

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The Book of Negroes - trade paperback

By Laurence Hill - $24.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Longlisted for the 2007 Giller Prize.Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her vi...

A Golden Age - trade paperback

By Tahmima Anam - $19.95 - add to cart

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Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book.As Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she may be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daug...