Book awards: Commonwealth Writers' Prize

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Works (66)

Titles
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas	2009
Animal's People by Indra Sinha	2008
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill	2008
The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson	2008
A Golden Age: A Novel by Tahmima Anam	2008
The Hangman's Game by Karen King-Aribisala	2008
Imagine This by Sade Adeniran	2008
The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll	2008
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2007
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar	2007
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones	2007
The Perfect Man: A Novel by Naeem Murr	2007
Vandal Love by D. Y. Bechard	2007
Alligator: A Novel by Lisa Moore	2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro	2006
The Secret River by Kate Grenville	2006
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2005
Small Island by Andrea Levy	2005
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon	2004
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips	2004
Haweswater by Sarah Hall	2003
Of a Boy by Sonya Hartnett	2003
The Other Side of Silence by André Brink	2003
The Polished Hoe: A Novel by Austin Clarke	2003
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Manu Herbstein	2002
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan	2002
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey	2001
White Teeth by Zadie Smith	2001
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha	2000
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee	2000
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore	2000
Super-Cannes by J. G. Ballard	2000
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto	1999
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail	1999
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey	1999
Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen	1998
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler	1998
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey	1998
Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald	1997
Salt: A Novel by Earl Lovelace	1997
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry	1996
Icefields by Thomas Wharton	1996
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra	1996
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières	1995
The Riders by Tim Winton	1995
Seasonal Adjustments by Adib Khan	1995
The Case of Emily V by Keith Oatley	1994
The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen	1994
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood	1994
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth	1994
The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller	1993
The Thousand Faces of Night by Githa Hariharan	1993
Divina Trace by Robert Antoni	1992
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry	1992
The Great World by David Malouf	1991
Shape Shifter by Pauline Melville	1991
The Gunny Sack by M.G. Vassanji	1990
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler	1990
Visitors by John Cranna	1990
The Carpathians by Janet Frame	1989
The Lost Father by Marina Warner	1989
Women of Influence (McCourt Fiction Series) by Bonnie Burnard	1989
Heroes by Festus Iyayi	1988
The Sea and Summer by George Turner	1988
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood	1987
Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers Series) by Olive Senior	1987

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The aim of the Prize is to encourage new Commonwealth fiction, and to ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin. See also the Prize website
List of regional winners (pdf)