Commonwealth Writers' Prize

The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is presented annually by the Commonwealth Foundation and supported by the Macquarie Group Foundation. The prize celebrates the best of cutting-edge Commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers, and takes their works to a global audience. Join finalists Christos Tsiolkas, Marina Endicott, Joan Thomas and Mo Zhi Hong for a series of readings and a Q&A session. You'll also have the opportunity to win a complete set of books by the finalists.

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These winners compete for the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book and Best First Book awards, to be announced at the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Awards Ceremony in Auckland on May 16.

From the social reverberations from hitting a child at a BBQ in a Melbourne suburban backyard to coping with self-sacrifice and divided family loyalties; from fictionalising the suspicious death in the 1988 plane crash of the Pakistan dictator General Zia ul-Haq to child trafficking, poverty, homelessness, AIDS and genocide on the African continent - they celebrate the craft of writing and challenge and extend our world view.

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