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Book Wise,12th April 2010   Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Rana Dasgupta and Glenda Guest capped an exciting week of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in Delhi by being named as the winners in the Best Book and Best First Book. Dasgupta won for Solo while Guest won for Siddon Rock. The prizes were announced […]

CNNGo,12th April 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize: Commerce or art? As the Commonwealth Writers Prize steals into Delhi, we look at what’s required to push high quality writing to the Indian masses Literature and book marketing can be strange and uncomfortable bedfellows. Commonwealth Writers Prize nominees and publishers discuss how to make the lie-in more comfortable.

Taaza.com,12th April Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Delhi-based British Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta, whose literary work Solo — a story that encompasses a century of communist and post-communist regimes in Bulgaria — has won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book. Australian author Glenda Guest won the Best First Book prize for

The Guardian,12th April Prize incentive to help improve literacy in the Commonwealth We hope that the winners of the 2010 Commonwealth writers’ prize (The week in books, 20 March) to be announced today in India, will inspire a new generation of young authors from unexpected parts of the world and advance cross-cultural collaboration, dialogue and

Weeks Update,12th April 2010   ‘Solo’ by Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 Delhi-based writer Rana Dasgupta Monday won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the best book “Solo”, the story of a Bulgarian centenarian who lives through the 20th century and daydreams of the 21st. Glenda Guest of Australia won the prize for the

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Foyles,13 April 2010   Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Controversial novelist Rana Dasgupta has won this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his epic book Solo. The 38-year-old British-Indian writer was commended by judges, who claimed his work was brimming with ‘edginess’. Solo tells the story of a 100-year-old man from Bulgaria, who recounts his

Just In Just Out,13 April 2010   The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 Best Book Award goes to Rana Dasgupta for SOLO New Delhi, 13 April 2010: SOLO by Rana Dasgupta, was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 Best Book. The award was given away by Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for External Affairs at