Monday, November 23, 2009

Commonwealth Writers Prize

1987 - Olive Senior, Summer Lightning
1988 - Festus Iyayi, Heroes
1989 - Janet Frame, The Carpathians
1990 - Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
1991 - David Malouf, The Great World
1992 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey,
1993 - Alex Miller The Ancestor Game
1994 - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1995 - Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin*
1996 - Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
1997 - Earl Lovelace, Salt
1998 - Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1999 - Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
2000 - John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang*
2002 - Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish
2003 - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2004 - Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
2005 - Andrea Levy, Small Island
2006 - Kate Grenville, The Secret River
2007 - Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
2008 - Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (U.S. title: Someone Knows My Name)*
2009 - The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
2010 - Solo, Rana Dasgupta
2011 - The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
2012 - Chinaman, Shehan Karunatilaka
2013 -