The 2007 overall winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize have been announced. The £10,000 award for the overall Best Book and the £5,000 for the Best First Book were chosen from the eight regional winners selected earlier this year.
This year’s winners are:
BEST BOOK: Mister Pipby Lloyd Jones
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where [...]
Winner of the Montana NZ Book Awards and the Common- wealth Writers' Prize, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip is one of the frontrunners for this year's Booker Prize.
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All major literary awards from all literary genres are reported here as soon as they are awarded, and whenever possible, short descriptions of the works, accompanied by relevant bookstore links, are provided.
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