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The Indian Express,14 April 2010   Delhi Now After Bulgaria, novelist Rana Dasgupta looks at the Capital in his next book Rana Dasgupta expresses a certain amount of wonder at having won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book on Monday evening. “It was a surprise. I’m delighted to have won the prize. Solo was […]

Hindustan Times,14 April 2010   King of the word He’s suave, good looking and writes like a dream. The 38-year-old winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, 2010, Rana Dasgupta spoke to HT City about 10,000 British Pound as award, possibly meeting the Queen and being a Delhiwallah. Dasgupta, who won the award for his second

The Sydney Morning Herald,14 April 2010   A late bloomer produces a winning bouquet THERE’S something of a tradition of women writers producing their first novels late in life and then having significant success. Think Elizabeth Jolley or Mary Wesley. Alongside those redoubtable novelists you might now want to add the name of Glenda Guest.

Award Tragic Blog,15 April 2010   Commonwealth Writers Prize 2010 Winners Siddon Rock by Australian author Glenda Guest (Vintage) is the winner of the ₤5000 (A$8,250) best first book award in this year’s Commonwealth Writers Prize. Solo by Rana Dasgupta (Fourth Estate) was the winner of the overall Commonwealth Writers Prize for best book. The

The Huffing Post,16 April 2010   Rana Dasgupta Wins Prestigious Commonwealth Prize For ‘Solo’ On the day when a band of former winners including AS Byatt, Louis de Bernires and Andrea Levy called for governments around the world to “find new ways to support literacy”, and hoped that this award would help, the British writer

Herald Sun,16 April 2010   Award shock for first-time author Australian author Glenda Guest is recovering from the shock of being named winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Guest says she attended the award ceremony in New Delhi this week to simply experience India and meet some interesting people. “I

Edmonton Journal,16 April 2010   Canadians shut out of Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes Canadian authors were shut out of this year’s Commonwealth Writer’s Prizes. Shandi Mitchell had been nominated for her book Under the Unbroken Sky, which previously won Best New Book in the Canadian/Caribbean region, and Michael Crummey was a finalist for Galore, which won

Live Mint,16 April 2010   ‘I have worked very hard’ | Daniyal Mueenuddin The author on inhabiting two worlds and his ‘goonda’ origins Himanshu Bhagat Daniyal Mueenuddin was born to a Pakistani father and an American mother in 1963. His debut collection of short stories set in contemporary Pakistan, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, was

Farm Lane Books Blog,16 April 2010     I Do Not Come To You By Chance – Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010, Best First Book: Africa. The short list for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize was announced last month and I was immediately drawn towards this book which centres on the