Saturday, March 5, 2011

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners

Best Book

South-East Asia and Pacific

That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott - (Australia)

South Asia and Europe:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell - (UK)

Caribbean and Canada:


Room by Emma Donoghue - (Canada)

Africa:

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna- (Sierra Leone)

Best First Book

South-East Asia and Pacific


A Man Melting - Craig Cliff - (New Zealand)

South Asia and Europe:

Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller-  (UK)

Caribbean and Canada:

Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best- (Canada)

Africa:

Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele (South Africa)

Have you read any of these? What do you recommend? I've read Room and The Memory of Love ( review scheduled for tomorrow) and I should try the NZ one although it sounds a bit too weird for my tastes.

3 comments:

  1. I have read none of these books. I feel awful ... it is as if I am stuck with a few authors and genres. Time I expanded!

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  2. I don't think you need to feel awful, Kavyen....it's not often I've read any on prize lists either.

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  3. I have read Room, I'm not a fan of this book (I struggled with a 5 years executing the escape plan and the book lost me at that point)... then I listened to the Slate book club discussion for Room last week and thought....did they read a different book? I must have been in a 'wrong fram of mind' when I read it.

    I'm interested in reading a few titles, thanks for posting this list.

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