Commonwealth Foundation prizes
{{Short description|Prizes awarded 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;{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401132705/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleID=172 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleID=172 |title=Commonwealth Writers – a world of new fiction |date=14 September 2011}} 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.
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
{{main|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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, set up in 2012, is awarded annually for a piece of unpublished short fiction.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){{anchor|Commonwealth Book Prize}}
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.{{cite news|first=Liz |last=Bury|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/aug/21/commonwealth-novel-prize-is-culled |title=Commonwealth novel prize culled to focus on short-story competition|newspaper=The Guardian|date= 21 August 2013}}
Commonwealth Short Story Competition (1996–2011){{anchor|Commonwealth Short Story Competition}}
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.[http://www.cba.org.uk/awards_and_competitions/Short_Story/2008_ShortStory_Results.php The Commonwealth Short Story Competition 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615213639/http://www.cba.org.uk/awards_and_competitions/Short_Story/2008_ShortStory_Results.php |date=15 June 2009 }}, CBA, 2008.[https://seawoman.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/the-commonwealth-short-story-competition-2009-united-kingdom/ "The Commonwealth Short Story Competition 2009 (United Kingdom)"], Seawoman's Caribbean Writing Opps, 18 November 2008.
In 2011, the competition was discontinued.
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! Year ! Author ! Country ! Title |
| 1996
| | | |
| 1997
| Barbados | "Crab Catcher" |
| 1998
| India | |
| 1999
| Barbados | "Bride" |
| 2000
| Guyana | "The Release" |
| 2001
| Bahamas | "Saving Rupa" |
| 2002
| Jamaica | "The Cleaning Class" |
| 2003
| India | "A Morning Swim" |
| 2004
| Uganda | "Going Home" |
| 2005
| India | "Treason" |
| 2006
| Canada | "The Moon, the Cat and the Donkey" |
| 2007
| Zambia | "Sozi's Box" |
| 2008
| Canada | "World Backwards" |
| 2009
| "Table Talk" |
| 2010
| India | "Retirement" |
| 2011
| Philip Nash | "Rejoinder" |
Commonwealth Writers' Prize{{anchor|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.
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! width="8%" |Year ! width="22%" |Region ! width="20%" |Author ! width="20%" |Title ! width="10%" |Country ! width="20%" |Publisher |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2011
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Africa | style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Aminatta Forna | style="background:#B0C4DE;" |The Memory of Love | style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Sierra Leone | style="background:#B0C4DE;" | |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Room | Canada | |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | UK | |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
|Australia | |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2010{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418072814/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/news/news/detail.cfm?id=616 |archive-date=18 April 2010 |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/news/news/detail.cfm?id=616 |title=Literary icons of tomorrow revealed |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation |date=12 April 2010 |access-date=31 May 2014}}
| Africa | South Africa | |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Galore | Canada | |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Rana Dasgupta |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Solo |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | India/UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2009{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/18/australian-commonwealth-prize-tsiolkas |title=Australian takes Commonwealth writers' prize |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Alison |last=Flood |date=18 May 2009 |access-date=31 May 2014}}
| Africa | The Lost Colours of the Chameleon | South Africa | Picador Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Good to a Fault | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| India/UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Christos Tsiolkas |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Slap |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Allen & Unwin |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2008{{cite web|title="2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize" |publisher= Literary Awards|url=https://www.literaryawards.co.uk/commonwealthwriters.html#2008|access-date= 18 January 2024}}
| Africa | The Hangman's Game | Nigeria |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Lawrence Hill |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Book of Negroes |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | HarperCollins |
| Europe and South Asia
| India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2007{{cite web |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |title=Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007 |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}
| Africa | The Native Commissioner | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The Friends of Meager Fortune | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Perfect Man | UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Lloyd Jones |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mister Pip |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | New Zealand |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Penguin Books |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2006
| Africa | The Sun by Night | Ghana | Africa World Press |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Alligator | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Kate Grenville |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Secret River |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Text Publishing |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2005
| Africa | Boy | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Runaway | Canada |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Andrea Levy |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Small Island |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Review |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2004
| Africa | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | Flamingo |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Caryl Phillips |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Distant Shore |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Secker & Warburg |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia | Knopf |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2003
| Africa | The Other Side of Silence | South Africa |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Austin Clarke |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Polished Hoe |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Thomas Allan |
| Europe and South Asia
| Spies | UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Of a Boy | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2002
| Africa | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Richard Flanagan |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Gould's Book of Fish |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Picador |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2001
| Africa | The Heart of Redness | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The Hero's Walk | Canada | Knopf |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK | Flamingo |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Peter Carey |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | True History of the Kelly Gang |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | University of Queensland Press |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2000
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | J. M. Coetzee |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Disgrace |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Secker & Warburg |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| What the Body Remembers | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia | Picador |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1999
| Africa | If You Can Walk, You Can Dance | South Africa | Shola Books |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Aelred's Sin | Trinidad |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Murray Bail |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Eucalyptus |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Harvill Press |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1998
| Africa | Walking Still | Zimbabwe | Baobab Books |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | Knopf |
| Europe and South Asia
| India |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Peter Carey |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jack Maggs |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | University of Queensland Press |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1997
| Africa | Under the Tongue | Zimbabwe | Baobab Books |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Earl Lovelace |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Salt |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Trinidad |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Faber and Faber |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK | Duckworth |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1996
| Africa | No selection made | | | |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Rohinton Mistry |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Fine Balance |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | McClelland & Stewart |
| Europe and South Asia
| Therapy | UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Grass Sister | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1995
| Africa | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| A Way in the World | Trinidad |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Louis de Bernières |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Captain Corelli's Mandolin |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Secker & Warburg |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1994
| Africa | The Rape of Sita | Mauritius | Ledikasyon pu Travayer |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Vikram Seth |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Suitable Boy |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | India |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Penguin Books |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1993
| Africa | Tides | Nigeria | Longman |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| Persistent Rumours | UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Alex Miller |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Ancestor Game |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Penguin Books |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1992
| Africa | Changes | Ghana | The Women's Press |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Rohinton Mistry |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Such a Long Journey |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | McClelland & Stewart |
| Europe and South Asia
| Señor Vivo & the Coca Lord | UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Ola | Samoa/New Zealand |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1991
| Africa | The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar | Sierra Leone |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Malouf |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Great World |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Chatto & Windus |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1990
| Africa | Harvest of Thorns | Zimbabwe | Baobab Books |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mordecai Richler |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Solomon Gursky Was Here |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Viking Books |
| Europe and South Asia
| India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Bay of Contented Men | Australia | Picador |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1989
| Africa | Zimbabwe | The Women's Press |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Myal | Jamaica |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Lost Father | UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;"| South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Janet Frame |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| The Carpathians |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| New Zealand |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Century Hutchinson |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1988
|style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Festus Iyayi |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Heroes |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Nigeria |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Longman |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The Honorary Patron | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Australia |
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center;"| 1987
| Africa | Ben Okri | Incidents at the Shrine | Nigeria |
| Africa
| A Forest of Flowers | Nigeria | Saros International |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Olive Senior |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Summer Lightning |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;"| Longman |
| Europe and South Asia
| Plans for Departure | India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Winter in Jerusalem | Australia |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Matriarch | New Zealand |
=Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book (1989–2011)=
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! width="8%" |Year ! width="22%" |Region ! width="20%" |Author ! width="20%" |Title ! width="10%" |Country ! width="20%" |Publisher |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2011{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903204728/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/Howwedeliver/Prizes/CommonwealthWritersPrize/2011prize |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/Howwedeliver/Prizes/CommonwealthWritersPrize/2011prize |title=2011 prize: final programme |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation |date=21 May 2011}}
| Africa | Happiness Is a Four-letter Word | South Africa | |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK | |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" |South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" |Craig Cliff |style="background:#B0C4DE;" |A Man Melting |style="background:#B0C4DE;" |New Zealand |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2010
| Africa | I Do Not Come to You By Chance | Nigeria | |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | |
| Europe and South Asia
|In Other Rooms, Other Wonders |Pakistan | |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Glenda Guest |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Siddon Rock |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2009
| Africa | Nigeria | Abacus |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | Goose Lane Editions |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mohammed Hanif |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Case of Exploding Mangoes |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Pakistan |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jonathan Cape |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Year of the Shanghai Shark | New Zealand | Penguin Books New Zealand |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2008
| Africa | Imagine This | Nigeria | SW Books |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The End of the Alphabet | Canada |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Tahmima Anam |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | A Golden Age |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bangladesh |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | John Murray |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Anatomy of Wings | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|2007
| Africa | All We Have Left Unsaid | South Africa | Kwela Books |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | D. Y. Béchard |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Vandal Love |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Doubleday |
| Europe and South Asia
| UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Tuvalu | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2006
| Africa | Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe | Uganda |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mark McWatt |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Guyana |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Peepal Tree Press |
| Europe and South Asia
| Lazy Eye | UK | Scribner |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Tash Aw | The Harmony Silk Factory | Malaysia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2005
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Purple Hibiscus |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Nigeria |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Fourth Estate |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Canada | Flamingo |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Sari Shop | India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Home | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2004
| Africa | Gardening at Night | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen | Canada |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Mark Haddon |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jonathan Cape |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Somewhere, Home | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2003
| Africa | Nigeria |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The Scent of a Lie | Canada | Ekstatis Editions |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sarah Hall |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Haweswater |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Faber and Faber |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Rice Mother | Malaysia | Sceptre |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2002
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Manu Herbstein |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ama |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South Africa |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | e-reads |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Martin Sloane | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| The 18th Pale Descendant | UK | Quartet |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| In the Blue House | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2001
| Africa | South Africa | David Philip Publishing |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Burning Ground | Canada | Flamingo |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Zadie Smith |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | White Teeth |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Hamish Hamilton |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Company: The Story of a Murderer | Australia | Picador |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 2000
| Africa | The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories | Nigeria |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Jeffrey Moore |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Thistledown Press |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Blue Bedspread | India | Picador |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Reconnaissance | New Zealand |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1999
| Africa | The Clothes of Nakedness | Ghana |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Kerri Sakamoto |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Electrical Field |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Knopf |
| Europe and South Asia
| Difficult Daughters | India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| In a Fishbone Church | New Zealand | Victoria University Press |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1998
| Africa | Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter | South Africa | Doubleday |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Tim Wynveen |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Angel Falls |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Key Porter Books |
| Europe and South Asia
| When Memory Dies | UK | Arcadia Books |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Emma Tom | Deadset | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1997
| Africa | At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories | South Africa | Hibbard Publishers |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ann-Marie MacDonald |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Fall on Your Knees |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Knopf |
| Europe and South Asia
| Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona | UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Where We Once Belonged | Samoa | Pasifika Press |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1996
| Africa | Winds of Change | South Africa |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Icefields | Canada | NeWest Publishers |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Vikram Chandra |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Red Earth and Pouring Rain |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | India |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Penguin Books |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Dead Sea Fruit | New Zealand | Reed Publishing |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1995
| Africa | The River and the Source | Kenya | Focus Books |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Chorus of Mushrooms | Canada | Newest Publishing |
| Europe and South Asia
| Newton's Niece | UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Adib Khan |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Seasonal Adjustments |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Australia |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Allen and Unwin |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1994
| Africa | Cry a Whisper | Ghana |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| The Roads are Down | Jamaica |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Keith Oatley |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Case of Emily V |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | UK |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Secker & Warburg |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Mule's Foal | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1993
| Africa | The Price of Liberty | Sierra Leone |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Satellite City | Jamaica | Longman |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Europe and South Asia
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Githa Hariharan |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Thousand Faces of Night |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | India |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Penguin Books |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Praise | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1992
| Africa | Grief Child | Ghana | Lion Publishing |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Robert Antoni |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Divina Trace |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bahamas |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Quartet |
| Europe and South Asia
| A Strange and Sublime Address | India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Word Burners | New Zealand | Daphne Brasell |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1991
| Africa | Our Wife and Other Stories | Nigeria | Malthouse Press |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Pauline Melville |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Shape Shifter |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Guyana |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Women's Press |
| Europe and South Asia
| The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts | UK |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins | Australia |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1990
| Africa | The Gunny Sack | Kenya |
| Canada and the Caribbean
| Bone Bird | Canada |
| Europe and South Asia
| Myself and Marco Polo | UK |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | South East Asia and South Pacific
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | John Cranna |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Visitors |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | New Zealand |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Heinemann |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| 1989
| Africa | No selection made | | | |
| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada and the Caribbean
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Bonnie Burnard |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Women of Influence |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Canada |style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Coteau Books |
| Europe and South Asia
| The Trotter-Nama | India |
| South East Asia and South Pacific
| Ride a Cock Horse | Australia | Pascoe Publishing |
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External links
- [http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/ Commonwealth Writers]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060923080850/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/writersprize/ Commonwealth Writers' Prize]
- {{cite web |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |title=Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007 |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150707232117/http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/bookawards/commonwealthwriters.html "Commonwealth Writers Prize" (winners 2002-12)], www.literaryfestivals.co.uk.
- [http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com Commonwealth Foundation]
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