Bookseller.com,13 April 2010 UK author wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Fourth Estate author Rana Dasgupta has won the 10,000 British Pounds for Best Book award at the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her novel Solo. Dasgupta beat five other titles in the South Asia and Europe category, and 23 others from all those […]
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Breaking News Online,13 April 2010 Rana Dasgupta wins 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize New Delhi: Breaking News! British writer of Indian origin, Rana Dasgupta has won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for his novel ‘Solo’. Australian Glenda Guest has won for best first book for her ‘Siddon Rock’. Dasgupta [Rana Dasgupta] received 10,000 British Pound,
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Courier Mail,13 April 2010 Australian Glenda Guest wins Commonwealth Writer’s Prize AUSTRALIAN author Glenda Guest’s Siddon Rock has been named best first book as part of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Guest collected $8,250 yesterday following judging in New Delhi for the awards, organised by the Commonwealth Foundation. Siddon Rock explores the effect of
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The Canberra Times,14 April 2010
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In.news.yahoo.com,14 April 2010 Nigerian author presents human side to email scam Wed, Apr 14 10:37 AM Wasfia Jalali New Delhi, Apr 14 (PTI) Her debut novel relates the stories of people who took the notorious but lucrative email scam route to riches in Nigeria, and author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani says her work was an
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The London Book Fair,14 April 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalists demonstrate global character Authors from seven different countries made the final of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize They include authors from across the Commonwealth, including South African writer Marie Heese and Michael Crummey from Canada. However, it was a British author who claimed the top
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The Sydney Morning Herald,14 April 2010 Magic ingredient helps first-time novelist scoop top prize IF THERE was any doubt an Australian had won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book, it vanished when Glenda Guest told a British journalist she felt ”like a stunned mullet”. Guest’s novel Siddon Rock was praised by the
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The Australian,14 April 2010 Down-to-earth novelist scales the literary heights GLENDA Guest, the down-to-earth Australian writer who was a surprise winner at the regional heat of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize last month, has gone on to greater glory. Yesterday, Guest, who is in her 60s, was named winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers
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