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Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best Book

The Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.

(found at: http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/)
1.
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Summer Lightning and Other Stories (Longman Caribbean Writers Series)
by Olive Senior
 
2.
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Heroes (Longman African Writers)
by Festus Iyayi
 
3.
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The Carpathians
by Janet Frame
 
4.
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Solomon Gursky Was Here
by Mordecai Richler
 
5. The Great World: A novel
by David Malouf
 
6. Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry
 
7.
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The Ancestor Game
by Alex Miller
 
8. A Suitable Boy : Novel, A
by Vikram Seth
 
9. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
 
10. A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
 
11. Salt: A Novel
by Earl Lovelace
 
12. Jack Maggs: A Novel
by Peter Carey
 
13. Eucalyptus: A Novel
by Murray Bail
 
14. Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
 
15. True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
by Peter Carey
 
16. Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan
 
17. The Polished Hoe: A Novel
by Austin Clarke
 
18. A Distant Shore
by CARYL PHILLIPS
 
19. Small Island: A Novel
by Andrea Levy
 
20. The Secret River
by Kate Grenville
 
21. Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
 
22. Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
 
24.
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The Slap
by Christos Tsiolkas
 
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