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      • Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
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      • Wolfson History Prize
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        • Independent 25 Best Books by Female Authors
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        • Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction #ThisBook
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      • The Novel 100
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        • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Readers' List
        • Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century Radcliffe's List
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2011
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff
 
Africa Regional Winner
Happiness is a Four-Letter Word by Cynthia Jele
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Bird Eat Bird by Katrina Best
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller
2010
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
 
Africa Regional Winner
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
2009
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
 
Africa Regional Winner
Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Year of the Shanghai Shark by Mo Zhi Hong
2008
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
 
Africa Regional Winner
Imagine This by Sade Adeniran
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee
2007
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Vandal Love by DY Béchard
 
Africa Regional Winner
All We Have Left Unsaid by Maxine Case
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
In The Country of Men by Hisham Matar
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Tuvalu by Andrew O'Connor
2006
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement by Mark McWatt
 
Africa Regional Winner
Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Lazy Eye by Donna Daley-Clarke
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
2005
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Africa Regional Winner
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Home by Larissa Behrendt
2004
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
 
Africa Regional Winner
Gardening at Night by Diane Awerbuck
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Somewhere, Home by Nada Awar Jarrar
2003
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Haweswater by Sarah Hall
 
Africa Regional Winner
Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Scent of a Lie by Paulo da Costa
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
2002
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Africa Regional Winner
Ama by Manu Herbstein
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The 18th Pale Descendant by William Muir
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
In the Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
2001
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
 
Africa Regional Winner
Thirteen Cents by K Sello Duiker
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Burning Ground by Pearl Luke
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Company by Arabella Edge
2000
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain by Jeffrey Moore
 
Africa Regional Winner
The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories by Funso Aiyejina
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Reconnaissance by Kapka Kassabova
1999
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
 
Africa Regional Winner
The Clothes of Nakedness by Benjamin Kwakye
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
1998
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen
 
Africa Regional Winner
Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
When Memory Dies by Ambalavaner Sivanandan
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Deadset by Emma Tom
1997
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
 
Africa Regional Winner
At the Edge and other Cato Manor Stories by Ronnie Govender
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona by Jeremy Poolman
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel
1996
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
 
Africa Regional Winner
Winds of Change by Dene Coetzee
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Dead Sea Fruit by Charlotte Randall
1995
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Seasonal Adjustments by Adib Khan
 
Africa Regional Winner
The River and the Source by Margaret A Ogola
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Newton's Niece by Derek Beaven
1994
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Case of Emily V by Keith Oatley
 
Africa Regional Winner
Cry a Whisper by Lucy Safo
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
The Roads are Down by Vanessa Spence
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Mule's Foal by Forini Epanomitis
1993
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Thousand Faces of Night by Githa Hariharan
 
Africa Regional Winner
The Price of Liberty by Paul Conton
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Satellite City by Alecia McKenzie
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Praise by Andrew McGahan
1992
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Divina Trace by Robert Antoni
 
Africa Regional Winner
Grief Child by Lawrence Darmani
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Word Burners by Beryl Fletcher
1991
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Shape Shifter by Pauline Melville
 
Africa Regional Winner
Our Wife and Other Stories by Karen King-Aribisala
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins by Thea Welsh
1990
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Visitors by John Cranna
 
Africa Regional Winner
The Gunny Sack by MG Vassanji
 
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Bone Bird by Darlene Barry Quaife
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
Myself and Marco Polo by Paul Griffiths
1989
Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book
Canada and the Carribean Regional Winner
Women of Influence by Bonnie Burnard
 
Africa Regional Winner
None
 
Europe and South Asia Regional Winner
The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy
 
South East Asia and South Pacific Regional Winner
Ride a Cock Horse by Gillian Mears
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