The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was established in 1987. It awards £10,000 to the best book submitted, £3,000 to the best first book, and £1,000 each to the best book and best first book of an author in each of the four Commonwealth regions, South East Asia and the South Pacific, Eurasia, Africa, the Caribbean and Canada. The prize is sponsored and organised by the Commonwealth Foundation. The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of 53 independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Oceania is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands – mostly islands but often including Australia – in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. ... Eurasia African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is the landmass composed of Europe and Asia. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... West Indian also redirects here. ...

Best Book Winners

• 1987 - Olive Senior, Summer Lightning
• 1988 - Festus Iyayi, Heroes
• 1989 - Janet Frame, The Carpathians
• 1990 - Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
• 1991 - David Malouf, The Great World
• 1992 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
• 1993 - Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
• 1994 - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
• 1995 - Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• 1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
• 1997 - Earl Lovelace, Salt
• 1998 - Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
• 1999 - Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
• 2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
• 2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• 2002 - Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish
• 2003 - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
• 2004 - Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
• 2005 - Andrea Levy, Small Island
• 2006 - Kate Grenville, The Secret River

dil raj 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Olive Senior (b. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Janet Paterson Frame ONZ, CBE, (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004) was a New Zealand writer. ... This article is about the year. ... Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter and essayist. ... Solomon Gursky Was Here is a 1989 novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... Such a Long Journey (1991) is a novel by Rohinton Mistry. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Alexander McPhee Miller (born December 27, 1936) is an Australian novelist. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Vikram Seth (pronounced sayt), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, childrens writer, biographer and memoirist. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Louis de Bernières (born London, UK on December 8, 1954) is a British novelist. ... Spoiler warning: Captain Corellis Mandolin is a novel by Louis de Bernières. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... A Fine Balance is the third book by Rohinton Mistry. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Earl Lovelace (born July 13, 1935) in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago) is a writer and playwright from the West Indies. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Peter Carey (born February 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... Jack Maggs (1998) is a novel by Peter Carey. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Murray Bail (born 1941) is an Australian author. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... J.M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced coot-SEE-uh) is a South African author. ... Disgrace (1999) is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature; the book itself won the Booker Prize in 1999, the year in which it was published. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Peter Carey (born February 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Austin Chesterfield Clarke (born 1934) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrea Levy is a British author, born in 1956. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kate Grenville is an Australian novelist. ...

Best First Book Winners

• 1989 - Bonnie Burnard, Women of Influence
• 1990 - John Cranna, Visitors
• 1991 - Pauline Melville, Shape-Shifter
• 1992 - Robert Antoni, Divina Trace
• 1993 - Gita Hariharan, The Thousand Faces of Night
• 1994 - Keith Oatley, The Case of Emily V
• 1995 - Adib Khan, Seasonal Adjustments
• 1996 - Vikram Chandra, Red Earth, Pouring Rain
• 1997 - Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on your Knees
• 1998 - Tim Wynveen, Angel Falls
• 1999 - Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field
• 2000 - Jeffrey Moore, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
• 2001 - Zadie Smith, White Teeth
• 2002 - Manu Herbstein, Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• 2003 - Sarah Hall, Haweswater
• 2004 - Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• 2005 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
• 2006 - Mark McWatt, Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement

1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bonnie Burnard (born January 15, Canadian novelist who lives in London, Ontario. ... This article is about the year. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pauline Melville (Born 1948) is a Guyanese-born writer and actress. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was born in the United States of Trinidadian parents and grew up largely in the Bahamas, where his father practised medicine; he says his fictional world is Corpus Christi, the invented island (based on Trinidad) that he introduced in his... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Vikram Chandra, is an emerging Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, and a collection of short stories, Love & Longing in Bombay. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ann-Marie MacDonald, born in 1958, is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Tim Wynveen is a Canadian novelist. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Kerri Sakamoto is a Canadian novelist. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Manu Herbstein is the South African author of Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eric Bradford (born 1962) is a hobo, who was educated at Under the Bridge University and Some Hole in the Ground, Texas. ... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (ISBN 0099450259) is a novel by Mark Haddon. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born in 1977) is a Nigerian writer. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mark McWatt (born 1947) is a Guyanese writer and educator. ...

External links

• http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/
• http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com