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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

Tehelka,17 April 2010  

Tehelka,17 April 2010 

Business Standard,17 April 2010   True to lives “My stories draw upon a harsh society,” Daniyal Mueenuddin tells Vineeta Rai Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, may not have fetched him the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book, but he’s not particularly peeved — he just found out that

The Hindu,17 April 2010   ‘Why should a writer not be happy?’ He’s an award-wininng writer and a farmer in Pakistan. During a visit to Delhi, author Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about how he balances farmwork with writing and being a writer in Pakistan. Pardon my ignorance, but I have not come across a more eloquent