Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional winners

The regional winners were announced on 11 March. For the South East Asia and Pacific region, the winner for Best Book is The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt (Samoa), and the winner for Best First Book is Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest (Australia). These books now go through to the final stage with the other six regional winners from Africa, the Caribbean and Canada, and South Asia and Europe.

The overall winners will be announced on 12 April.

Chair of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Justice Nicholas Hasluck, said “Taking just four of the eight books, we have a searing indictment from Nigeria of societies that reward corruption; an exhilarating tale from Samoa chronicling the life of a goddess of war; from a British, Delhi-based writer, an innovative novel of a blind 100-year old Bulgarian; and the story of a refugee family struggling to make their way in rural Canada. I am honoured to be involved in bringing the cultural insights of these stories to a truly international audience and enriching the fabric of the literary world.”

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— 15.03.2010

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