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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

  Commonwealth Secretariat,13 April 2010   Winners of Commonwealth Writers’ Prize ‘take readers outside comfort zone’ Rana Dasgupta scoops Best Book prize while Glenda Guest wins in the Best First Book category The two winning novels of this year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize “showed how magic, fantasy and creativity can burst out in the most apparently

Desi Mint,13 April 2010   Rana Dasgupta wins Commonwealth best book award British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta, who has made Delhi his home for the last nine years. Rana Dasgupta on Monday won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for 2010 for his epic tale Solo set in Communist and post-Communist Bulgaria while Australian Glenda Guest’s Siddon Rock

Live Mint,13 April 2010   Going ‘Solo’, flying high Rana Dasgupta’s Solo wins ‘Best Book’ at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2010 British-Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (CWP) 2010 for his second novel Solo (2009) at an event held at the India International Centre in New Delhi on Monday. Solo is

Love Reading – UK,13 April 2010   Rana Dasgupta awarded Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Solo Rana Dasgupta’s second novel Solo has earned him the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Solo by British-Indian author Rana Dasgupta has won the best book prize as part of the 2010 Commonwealth writer’s prize held in New Delhi, today. He won