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.



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The Book of Negroes - trade paperback
By Laurence Hill - $24.95 - add to cart

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

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...

 

Mister Pip - trade paperback
By Lloyd Jones - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda’s island, only one white person stays behind. Mr. Watts, whom the kids...

 

Vandal Love - trade paperback
By D.y. Bechard - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book.An astonishing novel, Vandal Love follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America, and through the twe...

 

Purple Hibiscus - trade paperback
By Chimamanda Adichie - $17.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel.Set in Enugu, Nigeria, on the eve of a military coup, Purple Hibiscus tells the story of fifteen-year-old Kambili and her painf...

 

Small Island - trade paperback
By Andrea Levy - $14.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book .Winner of the 2004 Whitbread AwardWinner of the 2004 Orange Prize for FictionIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 2...

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - trade paperback
By Mark Haddon - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel.Winner of the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, ...

 

The Polished Hoe - trade paperback
By Austin Clarke - $22.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best BookWinner of the 2002 Giller Prize.When Mary-Mathilda, an elderly woman living in the West Indian island of Bimshire, calls the police to co...

 

White Teeth - trade paperback
By Zadie Smith - $18.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel.In the vibrant multicultural city of London, three families from different backgrounds find themselves linked in every conceivabl...

 

True History of the Kelly Gang - trade paperback
By Peter Carey - $22.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize for Fiction.Winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize, this novel by the author of Oscar and Lucinda (another Book...

 

Disgrace - trade paperback
By J. M. Coetzee - $21.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize for Fiction.Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize. David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, is a scholar w...

 

Jack Maggs - trade paperback
By Peter Carey - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book. foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fort...

 

Fall On Your Knees - trade paperback
By Ann-marie Macdonald - $23.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Novel.Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that ...

 

A Fine Balance - trade paperback
By Rohinton Mistry - $24.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 1996 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Winner of the 1995 Giller Prize.A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s Ind...

 

Captain Corellis Mandolin - trade paperback
By Louis Debernieres - $21.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 1995 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying f...

 

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