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2007 Commonwealth Prize Winners
The winners of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced recently by the Commonwealth Foundation in London. The prize --- which 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 --- is presented to two winners in each of the four Commonwealth regions. The regional winners then go through to a final phase, in which a distinguished panel decides on an overall Best Book and Best First Book Winners. This year, the Commonwealth panel will present the overall prizes during the Calabash International Literary Festival on May 27th in Jamaica.
This year's regional winners are:
Africa
Best Book:
THE NATIVE COMMISSIONER by Shau Johnson (Penguin)
Best First Book:
ALL WE HAVE LEFT UNSAID by Maxine Case (Kwela Books)
Canada and the Caribbean
Best Book:
THE FRIENDS OF MEAGER FORTUNE by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada)
Best First Book:
VANDAL LOVE by D. Y. Bechard (Doubleday)
Europe and South Asia
Best Book:
THE PERFECT MAN by Maeem Murr (Heinemann)
Best First Book:
IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN by Hisham Matar (Viking)
South East Asia and South Pacific
Best Book:
MISTER PIP by Lloyd Jones
Best First Book:
TUVALU by Andrew O'Connor (Allen and Unwin)
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