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Commonwealth book prize

July 2018

  • Kevin Jared Hosein.

    Trinidadian Creole tale wins 2018 Commonwealth short story prize

    Judges praise Passage by Kevin Jared Hosein as ‘all a reader could want from a short story’

June 2016

  • Parashar Kulkarni

    Commonwealth short story prize goes to writer's first tale

    Cow and Company by Indian academic Parashar Kulkarni beats 4,000 other contestants to £5,000 prize

September 2015

  • Jonathan Tel, winner of Commonwealth prize

    Jonathan Tel wins Commonwealth short story prize

    British writer beats authors from Nigeria, India and Trinidad and Tobago with The Human Phonograph, a ‘disconcerting’ tale of China’s nuclear history

April 2015

  • The site of China's first nuclear weapon research base in Haiyan county, Qinghai province.

    Commonwealth short story prize: The Human Phonograph by Jonathan Tel - short story

    A woman is reunited with her geologist husband at a remote nuclear base in Maoist China in one of five regional winners of the 2015 prize

August 2013

  • JM Coetzee

    Commonwealth novel prize culled to focus on short-story competition

    Commonwealth Foundation puts its weight behind development of new and emerging writers, reports Liz Bury

May 2013

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    The regional winners of the Commonwealth book prize 2013 write about their favourite books from the prize's catchment area
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    Win the Commonwealth book prize shortlist 2013 - competition

    The overall winner of the Commonwealth book prize will be announced on 31 May. We have three sets of the shortlisted titles to give away

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    Commonwealth book prize 2013: Regional winners - in pictures

    The five regional winners of the prestigious international prize have just been announced - take a closer look here

June 2012

  • Shehan Karunatilaka

    Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2012 Commonwealth book prize

    Sri Lankan author's cricket-themed debut offering Chinaman: the Legend of Pradeep Mathew takes £10,000 award

April 2012

  • gillian mears

    Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears – review

    Gillian Mears brings horror and horses to vibrant life in her first novel for 16 years, writes Stephanie Cross

October 2011

  • Interview by Oliver Laughland

    The conversation
    From Booker to Bafta: do arts awards matter?

    Interview by Oliver Laughland

    The awards season, with all its squabbles, is under way. Actor Diana Quick and Poetry Society chief Judith Palmer discuss winning, losing, and marching off in a huff

May 2011

  • Aminatta Forna

    Aminatta Forna wins Commonwealth writers' prize

    The Memory of Love's 'immensely powerful portrayal of human resilience' takes £10,000 award

March 2011

  • David Mitchell

    Commonwealth writers' prize announces regional winners

    David Mitchell, Emma Donoghue, Kim Scott and Aminatta Forna go on to compete for overall winner

April 2010

  • Rana Dasgupta

    Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers' prize

  • Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth

May 2009

  • Australian takes Commonwealth writers' prize

    Christos Tsiolkas wins £10,000 award for novel The Slap

February 2009

  • Salman Rushdie

    Rushdie and Hensher face off for Commonwealth prize

    Salman Rushdie and Philip Hensher are to go head to head for the second time in six months after both authors made it onto the regional shortlist for the Commonwealth writers' prize

March 2007

  • Boyhood tales scoop Commonwealth prizes

    Naeem Murr has beaten the Booker-shortlisted authors David Mitchell and MJ Hyland to win the best book award in the Europe and South Asia section of the Commonwealth writers' prize with The Perfect Man, his tale of a 12-year-old Anglo-Indian boy abandoned to the care of relatives in London.

February 2007

  • Booker nominees back in line for Commonwealth writers' prize

    MJ Hyland and David Mitchell head the regional shortlist for the first stage of the £10,000 worldwide English-language prize competition.

May 2006

  • Kate Grenville to meet the Queen

    The Australian writer Kate Grenville will meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace next week after winning the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her novel about a convict ancestor who seized Aboriginal land, The Secret River. She will also attend a reception to celebrate the award at the Australian high commission in London as guest of honour.

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