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A series of writing prizes presented by the Commonwealth Foundation

Commonwealth Foundation has presented a number of prizes since 1987. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best First Book prize was awarded from 1989 to 2011. In addition the Commonwealth Short Story Competition was awarded from 1996 to 2011.

Beginning in 2012, Commonwealth Foundation discontinued its previous awards and created a new cultural initiative called Commonwealth Writers, which offered two new awards: the Commonwealth Book Prize for the best first book, in which regional winners received £2,500 and the overall winner received £10,000; and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the best short stories, in which regional winners received £1,000 and the overall winner received £5,000. After two years, the Book Prize was discontinued. The Short Story Prize remains the sole award from Commonwealth Writers.

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Commonwealth novel prize culled to focus on short-story competition

Aug 21 2013

Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Main article: Commonwealth Short Story Prize

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, set up in 2012, is awarded annually for a piece of unpublished short fiction. It is open to Commonwealth citizens aged 18 and over who have had little or no work published and is particularly aimed at those places with little or no publishing industry.

Commonwealth Book Prize (2012–13)

Awarded for best first book, the Commonwealth Book Prize was established in 2012 for writers who were Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over and who have had their first novel (full-length work of fiction) published in the year of entry. The Commonwealth Book Prize was part of an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation called Commonwealth Writers, which seeks to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth.

Regional winners received £2,500 and the overall winner received £10,000.

The prize was active for two years, 2012 and 2013, and then discontinued.²

Year	Region	Author	Title	Country	Publisher
2012 ³ ⁴ ⁵	Africa	Jacques Strauss	The Dubious Salvation of Jack V	South Africa	Jonathan Cape
	Asia	Shehan Karunatilaka	Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew	Sri Lanka	Random House
	Canada and Europe	Riel Nason	The Town That Drowned	Canada	Goose Lane Editions
	Caribbean	Alecia McKenzie	Sweetheart	Jamaica	Peepal Tree Press
	Pacific	Cory Taylor	Me and Mr Booker	Australia	The Text Publishing Company
2013 ⁶ ⁷	Africa	E. E. Sule	Sterile Sky	Nigeria	Pearson Education
	Asia	Nayomi Munaweera	Island of a Thousand Mirrors	Sri Lanka	Perera-Hussein Publishing House
	Canada and Europe	Lisa O'Donnell	The Death of Bees	United Kingdom	William Heinemann
	Caribbean	Ezekel Alan	Disposable People	Jamaica	self-published
	Pacific	Michael Sala	The Last Thread	Australia	Affirm Press

Commonwealth Short Story Competition (1996–2011)

The Commonwealth Short Story Competition was an annual literary award. It was established in 1996 and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation in partnership with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

Each year winning stories from different regions of the Commonwealth were recorded and broadcast on radio stations across the Commonwealth. The winner received a prize of £2,000 and there were regional prizes of £500 and highly commended prizes of £100.⁸ ⁹

In 2011, the competition was discontinued.

Year	Author	Country	Title
1996
1997	Dana Gilkes	Barbados	"Crab Catcher"
1998	Sujam Sankranti	India
1999	Cherie Jones	Barbados	"Bride"
2000	Dennis Nichols	Guyana	"The Release"
2001	Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming	Bahamas	"Saving Rupa"
2002	Michael Reckord	Jamaica	"The Cleaning Class"
2003	Madhulika Liddle	India	"A Morning Swim"
2004	Juliane Okot Bitek	Uganda	"Going Home"
2005	Preeta Krishna	India	"Treason"
2006	Erin Soros	Canada	"The Moon, the Cat and the Donkey"
2007	Ellen Banda-Aaku	Zambia	"Sozi's Box"
2008	Julie Curwin	Canada	"World Backwards"
2009	Jennifer Moore	United Kingdom	"Table Talk"
2010	Shachi Kaul	India	"Retirement"
2011	Philip Nash	United Kingdom	"Rejoinder"

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was established in 1987, as a successor to the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Each year, prizes for Best Book (1987–2011) and Best First Book (1989–2011) were awarded in four regions: Africa, Caribbean and Canada, South Asia and Europe and South East Asia and Pacific. Eight regional winners then competed for the pan-Commonwealth Best Book and Best First Book prizes, awarded at a public programme held in a different Commonwealth country each year.

The award was discontinued in 2011, when the Commonwealth Foundation launched a new cultural programme, Commonwealth Writers, which offered the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (1987–2011)

In the following lists for the Best Book Prize and Best First Book, the overall winners are in bold and in blue background; those not in bold are the winners of the listed regions.

Year	Region	Author	Title	Country	Publisher
2011 ¹⁰	Africa	Aminatta Forna	The Memory of Love	Sierra Leone
	Canada and the Caribbean	Emma Donoghue	Room	Canada
	Europe and South Asia	David Mitchell	The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet	UK
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Kim Scott	That Deadman Dance	Australia
2010 ¹¹	Africa	Marié Heese	The Double Crown	South Africa
	Canada and the Caribbean	Michael Crummey	Galore	Canada
	Europe and South Asia	Rana Dasgupta	Solo	India/UK
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Albert Wendt	The Adventures of Vela	Samoa
2009 ¹²	Africa	Mandla Langa	The Lost Colours of the Chameleon	South Africa	Picador Africa
	Canada and the Caribbean	Marina Endicott	Good to a Fault	Canada	Freehand Books
	Europe and South Asia	Jhumpa Lahiri	Unaccustomed Earth	India/UK	Bloomsbury Publishing
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Christos Tsiolkas	The Slap	Australia	Allen & Unwin
2008 ¹³	Africa	Karen King-Aribisala	The Hangman's Game	Nigeria	Peepal Tree Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Lawrence Hill	The Book of Negroes	Canada	HarperCollins
	Europe and South Asia	Indra Sinha	Animal's People	India	Simon & Schuster
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Steven Carroll	The Time We Have Taken	Australia	HarperCollins
2007 ¹⁴	Africa	Shaun Johnson	The Native Commissioner	South Africa	Penguin Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	David Adams Richards	The Friends of Meager Fortune	Canada	Doubleday
	Europe and South Asia	Naeem Murr	The Perfect Man	UK	Heinemann
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Lloyd Jones	Mister Pip	New Zealand	Penguin Books
2006 ¹⁵	Africa	Benjamin Kwakye	The Sun by Night	Ghana	Africa World Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Lisa Moore	Alligator	Canada	House of Anansi Press
	Europe and South Asia	Zadie Smith	On Beauty	UK	Hamish Hamilton
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Kate Grenville	The Secret River	Australia	Text Publishing
2005 ¹⁶	Africa	Lindsey Collen	Boy	South Africa	Bloomsbury
	Canada and the Caribbean	Alice Munro	Runaway	Canada	McClelland and Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Andrea Levy	Small Island	UK	Review
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Andrew McGahan	The White Earth	Australia	Allen & Unwin
2004 ¹⁷	Africa	Damon Galgut	The Good Doctor	South Africa	Viking Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Frances Itani	Deafening	Canada	Flamingo
	Europe and South Asia	Caryl Phillips	A Distant Shore	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Michelle de Kretser	The Hamilton Case	Australia	Knopf
2003 ¹⁸	Africa	Andre Brink	The Other Side of Silence	South Africa	Secker & Warburg
	Canada and the Caribbean	Austin Clarke	The Polished Hoe	Canada	Thomas Allan
	Europe and South Asia	Michael Frayn	Spies	UK	Faber and Faber
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Sonya Hartnett	Of a Boy	Australia	Viking Books
2002 ¹⁹	Africa	Nadine Gordimer	The Pickup	South Africa	Bloomsbury
	Canada and the Caribbean	Alice Munro	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage	Canada	McClelland and Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Ian McEwan	Atonement	UK	Jonathan Cape
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Richard Flanagan	Gould's Book of Fish	Australia	Picador
2001 ²⁰	Africa	Zakes Mda	The Heart of Redness	South Africa	Oxford University Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Anita Rau Badami	The Hero's Walk	Canada	Knopf
	Europe and South Asia	J. G. Ballard	Super-Cannes	UK	Flamingo
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Australia	University of Queensland Press
2000 ²¹	Africa	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	South Africa	Secker & Warburg
	Canada and the Caribbean	Shauna Singh Baldwin	What the Body Remembers	Canada	Doubleday
	Europe and South Asia	Salman Rushdie	The Ground Beneath Her Feet	UK	Jonathan Cape
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Lily Brett	Too Many Men	Australia	Picador
1999 ²²	Africa	Marion Molteno	If You Can Walk, You Can Dance	South Africa	Shola Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Lawrence Scott	Aelred's Sin	Trinidad	Allison & Busby
	Europe and South Asia	Beryl Bainbridge	Master Georgie	UK	Duckworth
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Murray Bail	Eucalyptus	Australia	Harvill Press
1998 ²³	Africa	Charles Mungoshi	Walking Still	Zimbabwe	Baobab Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Mordecai Richler	Barney's Version	Canada	Knopf
	Europe and South Asia	Vikram Chandra	Love and Longing in Bombay	India	Faber and Faber
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Peter Carey	Jack Maggs	Australia	University of Queensland Press
1997 ²⁴	Africa	Yvonne Vera	Under the Tongue	Zimbabwe	Baobab Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Earl Lovelace	Salt	Trinidad	Faber and Faber
	Europe and South Asia	Beryl Bainbridge	Every Man for Himself	UK	Duckworth
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Sue Woolfe	Leaning Towards Infinity	Australia	Random House
1996 ²⁵	Africa	No selection made
	Canada and the Caribbean	Rohinton Mistry	A Fine Balance	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	David Lodge	Therapy	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Gillian Mears	The Grass Sister	Australia	Random House
1995 ²⁶	Africa	J. M. Coetzee	The Master of Petersburg	South Africa	Secker & Warburg
	Canada and the Caribbean	V. S. Naipaul	A Way in the World	Trinidad	Heinemann
	Europe and South Asia	Louis de Bernières	Captain Corelli's Mandolin	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Tim Winton	The Riders	Australia	Pan Macmillan
1994 ²⁷	Africa	Lindsey Collen	The Rape of Sita	Mauritius	Ledikasyon pu Travayer
	Canada and the Caribbean	Margaret Atwood	The Robber Bride	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Vikram Seth	A Suitable Boy	India	Penguin Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	David Malouf	Remembering Babylon	Australia	Random House
1993 ²⁸	Africa	Isidore Okpewho	Tides	Nigeria	Longman
	Canada and the Caribbean	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Lee Langley	Persistent Rumours	UK	William Heinemann
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Alex Miller	The Ancestor Game	Australia	Penguin Books
1992 ²⁹	Africa	Ama Ata Aidoo	Changes	Ghana	The Women's Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Rohinton Mistry	Such a Long Journey	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Louis de Bernières	Señor Vivo & the Coca Lord	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Albert Wendt	Ola	Samoa/New Zealand	Penguin Books
1991 ³⁰	Africa	Syl Cheney-Coker	The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar	Sierra Leone	Heinemann
	Canada and the Caribbean	Alice Munro	Friend of My Youth	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	A. S. Byatt	Possession: A Romance	UK	Chatto & Windus
	South East Asia and South Pacific	David Malouf	The Great World	Australia	Chatto & Windus
1990 ³¹	Africa	Shimmer Chinodya	Harvest of Thorns	Zimbabwe	Baobab Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Mordecai Richler	Solomon Gursky Was Here	Canada	Viking Books
	Europe and South Asia	Shashi Tharoor	The Great Indian Novel	India	Penguin Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Robert Drewe	The Bay of Contented Men	Australia	Picador
1989 ³²	Africa	Tsitsi Dangarembga	Nervous Conditions	Zimbabwe	The Women's Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Erna Brodber	Myal	Jamaica	New Beacon Books
	Europe and South Asia	Marina Warner	The Lost Father	UK	Chatto & Windus
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Janet Frame	The Carpathians	New Zealand	Century Hutchinson
1988 ³³	Africa	Festus Iyayi	Heroes	Nigeria	Longman
	Canada and the Caribbean	Jack Hodgins	The Honorary Patron	Canada	McClelland & Stewart
	Europe and South Asia	Bruce Chatwin	The Songlines	UK	Jonathan Cape
	South East Asia and South Pacific	George Turner	The Sea and Summer	Australia	Faber and Faber
1987 ³⁴	Africa	Ben Okri	Incidents at the Shrine	Nigeria	William Heinemann
	Africa	Ken Saro-Wiwa	A Forest of Flowers	Nigeria	Saros International
	Canada and the Caribbean	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	Canada	Jonathan Cape
	Canada and the Caribbean	Olive Senior	Summer Lightning	Canada	Longman
	Europe and South Asia	Nayantara Sahgal	Plans for Departure	India	William Heinemann
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Blanche d'Alpuget	Winter in Jerusalem	Australia	Heinemann
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Witi Ihimaera	The Matriarch	New Zealand	Heinemann

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (1989–2011)

Year	Region	Author	Title	Country	Publisher
2011 ³⁵	Africa	Cynthia Jele	Happiness Is a Four-letter Word	South Africa
	Canada and the Caribbean	Katrina Best	Bird Eat Bird	Canada
	Europe and South Asia	Mischa Hiller	Sabra Zoo	UK
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Craig Cliff	A Man Melting	New Zealand
2010 ³⁶	Africa	Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani	I Do Not Come to You By Chance	Nigeria
	Canada and the Caribbean	Shandi Mitchell	Under This Unbroken Sky	Canada
	Europe and South Asia	Daniyal Mueenuddin	In Other Rooms, Other Wonders	Pakistan
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Glenda Guest	Siddon Rock	Australia
2009 ³⁷	Africa	Uwem Akpan	Say You‘re One of Them	Nigeria	Abacus
	Canada and the Caribbean	Joan Thomas	Reading by Lightning	Canada	Goose Lane Editions
	Europe and South Asia	Mohammed Hanif	A Case of Exploding Mangoes	Pakistan	Jonathan Cape
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Mo Zhi Hong	The Year of the Shanghai Shark	New Zealand	Penguin Books New Zealand
2008 ³⁸	Africa	Sade Adeniran	Imagine This	Nigeria	SW Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	C. S. Richardson	The End of the Alphabet	Canada	Doubleday
	Europe and South Asia	Tahmima Anam	A Golden Age	Bangladesh	John Murray
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Karen Foxlee	The Anatomy of Wings	Australia	University of Queensland Press
2007 ³⁹	Africa	Maxine Case	All We Have Left Unsaid	South Africa	Kwela Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	D. Y. Béchard	Vandal Love	Canada	Doubleday
	Europe and South Asia	Hisham Matar	In the Country of Men	UK	Viking Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Andrew O'Connor	Tuvalu	Australia	Allen & Unwin
2006 ⁴⁰	Africa	Doreen Baingana	Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe	Uganda	University of Massachusetts Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Mark McWatt	Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement	Guyana	Peepal Tree Press
	Europe and South Asia	Donna Daley-Clarke	Lazy Eye	UK	Scribner
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Tash Aw	The Harmony Silk Factory	Malaysia	Harper Perennial
2005 ⁴¹	Africa	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Purple Hibiscus	Nigeria	Fourth Estate
	Canada and the Caribbean	David Bezmozgis	Natasha and Other Stories	Canada	Flamingo
	Europe and South Asia	Rupa Bajwa	The Sari Shop	India	Viking Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Larissa Behrendt	Home	Australia	University of Queensland Press
2004 ⁴²	Africa	Diane Awerbuck	Gardening at Night	South Africa	Secker & Warburg
	Canada and the Caribbean	Kate Taylor	Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen	Canada	Doubleday
	Europe and South Asia	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	UK	Jonathan Cape
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Nada Awar Jarrar	Somewhere, Home	Australia	William Heinemann
2003 ⁴³	Africa	Helon Habila	Waiting for an Angel	Nigeria	Hamish Hamilton
	Canada and the Caribbean	Paulo da Costa	The Scent of a Lie	Canada	Ekstatis Editions
	Europe and South Asia	Sarah Hall	Haweswater	UK	Faber and Faber
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Rani Manicka	The Rice Mother	Malaysia	Sceptre
2002 ⁴⁴	Africa	Manu Herbstein	Ama	South Africa	e-reads
	Canada and the Caribbean	Michael Redhill	Martin Sloane	Canada	Anchor Books
	Europe and South Asia	William Muir	The 18th Pale Descendant	UK	Quartet
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Meaghan Delahunt	In the Blue House	Australia	Bloomsbury
2001 ⁴⁵	Africa	K. Sello Duiker	Thirteen Cents	South Africa	David Philip Publishing
	Canada and the Caribbean	Pearl Luke	Burning Ground	Canada	Flamingo
	Europe and South Asia	Zadie Smith	White Teeth	UK	Hamish Hamilton
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Arabella Edge	The Company: The Story of a Murderer	Australia	Picador
2000 ⁴⁶	Africa	Funso Aiyejina	The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories	Nigeria	TSAR Publications
	Canada and the Caribbean	Jeffrey Moore	Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain	Canada	Thistledown Press
	Europe and South Asia	Raj Kamal Jha	The Blue Bedspread	India	Picador
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Kapka Kassabova	Reconnaissance	New Zealand	Penguin Books
1999 ⁴⁷	Africa	Benjamin Kwakye	The Clothes of Nakedness	Ghana	Heinemann
	Canada and the Caribbean	Kerri Sakamoto	The Electrical Field	Canada	Knopf
	Europe and South Asia	Manju Kapur	Difficult Daughters	India	Penguin Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Catherine Chidgey	In a Fishbone Church	New Zealand	Victoria University Press
1998 ⁴⁸	Africa	Pamela Jooste	Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter	South Africa	Doubleday
	Canada and the Caribbean	Tim Wynveen	Angel Falls	Canada	Key Porter Books
	Europe and South Asia	A. Sivanandan	When Memory Dies	UK	Arcadia Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Emma Tom	Deadset	Australia	Random House
1997 ⁴⁹	Africa	Ronnie Govender	At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories	South Africa	Hibbard Publishers
	Canada and the Caribbean	Ann-Marie MacDonald	Fall on Your Knees	Canada	Knopf
	Europe and South Asia	Jeremy Poolman	Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona	UK	Faber and Faber
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Sia Figiel	Where We Once Belonged	Samoa	Pasifika Press
1996 ⁵⁰	Africa	Dene Coetzee	Winds of Change	South Africa	Hodder and Stoughton
	Canada and the Caribbean	Thomas Wharton	Icefields	Canada	NeWest Publishers
	Europe and South Asia	Vikram Chandra	Red Earth and Pouring Rain	India	Penguin Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Charlotte Randall	Dead Sea Fruit	New Zealand	Reed Publishing
1995 ⁵¹	Africa	Margaret A. Ogola	The River and the Source	Kenya	Focus Books
	Canada and the Caribbean	Hiromi Goto	Chorus of Mushrooms	Canada	Newest Publishing
	Europe and South Asia	Derek Beaven	Newton's Niece	UK	Faber & Faber
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Adib Khan	Seasonal Adjustments	Australia	Allen and Unwin
1994 ⁵²	Africa	Lucy Safo	Cry a Whisper	Ghana	Bogle-L'Ouverture
	Canada and the Caribbean	Vanessa Spence	The Roads are Down	Jamaica	Heinemann
	Europe and South Asia	Keith Oatley	The Case of Emily V	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Fotini Epanomitis	The Mule's Foal	Australia	Allen & Unwin
1993 ⁵³	Africa	Paul Conton	The Price of Liberty	Sierra Leone	Macmillan
	Canada and the Caribbean	Alecia McKenzie	Satellite City	Jamaica	Longman
	Europe and South Asia	Githa Hariharan	The Thousand Faces of Night	India	Penguin Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Andrew McGahan	Praise	Australia	Allen & Unwin
1992 ⁵⁴	Africa	Lawrence Darmani	Grief Child	Ghana	Lion Publishing
	Canada and the Caribbean	Robert Antoni	Divina Trace	Bahamas	Quartet
	Europe and South Asia	Amit Chaudhuri	A Strange and Sublime Address	India	Heinemann
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Beryl Fletcher	The Word Burners	New Zealand	Daphne Brasell
1991 ⁵⁵	Africa	Karen King-Aribisala	Our Wife and Other Stories	Nigeria	Malthouse Press
	Canada and the Caribbean	Pauline Melville	Shape Shifter	Guyana	The Women's Press
	Europe and South Asia	Louis de Bernières	The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts	UK	Secker & Warburg
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Thea Welsh	The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins	Australia	Simon & Schuster
1990 ⁵⁶	Africa	M.G. Vassanji	The Gunny Sack	Kenya	Heinemann
	Canada and the Caribbean	Darlene Barry Quaife	Bone Bird	Canada	Turnstone Press
	Europe and South Asia	Paul Griffiths	Myself and Marco Polo	UK	Chatto & Windus
	South East Asia and South Pacific	John Cranna	Visitors	New Zealand	Heinemann
1989 ⁵⁷	Africa	No selection made
	Canada and the Caribbean	Bonnie Burnard	Women of Influence	Canada	Coteau Books
	Europe and South Asia	Allan Sealy	The Trotter-Nama	India	Viking Books
	South East Asia and South Pacific	Gillian Mears	Ride a Cock Horse	Australia	Pascoe Publishing

Notes

External links

Commonwealth Writers
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
"Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2007.
"Commonwealth Writers Prize" (winners 2002-12), www.literaryfestivals.co.uk.
Commonwealth Foundation

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