Commonwealth Writer's Prize

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, is a leading award for fiction that was first awarded in 1987. The Commonwealth Foundation is an intergovernmental organisation working in the 53 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. 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.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Official Site

Year

Best Book Winner

Best First Book Winner

2007

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones

Vandal Love
D. Y. Béchard

2006

The Secret River
Kate Grenville

Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement
Mark McWatt

2005

Small Island
Andrea Levy

Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2004

A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon

2003

The Polished Hoe
Austin Clarke

Haweswater
Sarah Hall

2002

Gould's Book of Fish
Richard Flanagan

Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Manu Herbstein

2001

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

White Teeth
Zadie Smith

2000

Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee

Red-Rose Chain
Jeffrey Moore


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The Man Booker Prize Full Listing	The Man Booker International Prize Full Listing	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Full Listing
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