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Commonwealth Writers' Prize For Best First Book (awards)

This award was given to 90 books.

  1. Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word

    Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word

    by Cynthia Jele

    Year: 2011
    Category: Africa
  2. Bird Eat Bird

    Bird Eat Bird

    by Katrina Best

    Year: 2011
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  3. Sabra Zoo

    Sabra Zoo

    by Mischa Hiller

    Year: 2011
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  4. A Man Melting

    A Man Melting

    by Craig Cliff

    Year: 2011
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  5. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

    I Do Not Come to You by Chance

    by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

    Year: 2010
    Category: Africa
  6. Under This Unbroken Sky

    Under This Unbroken Sky

    by Shandi Mitchell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  7. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

    by Daniyal Mueenuddin

    Year: 2010
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  8. Siddon Rock

    Siddon Rock

    by Glenda Guest

    Year: 2010
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  9. Say You're One of Them

    Say You're One of Them

    by Uwem Akpan

    Year: 2009
    Category: Africa
  10. Reading by Lightning

    Reading by Lightning

    by Joan Thomas

    Year: 2009
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  11. A Case of Exploding Mangoes

    A Case of Exploding Mangoes

    by Mohammed Hanif

    Year: 2009
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  12. The Year of the Shanghai Shark

    The Year of the Shanghai Shark

    by Zhi Hong Mo

    Year: 2009
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  13. Imagine This

    Imagine This

    by Sade Adeniran

    Year: 2008
    Category: Africa
  14. The End of the Alphabet

    The End of the Alphabet

    by C. S. Richardson

    Year: 2008
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  15. A Golden Age

    A Golden Age

    by Tahmima Anam

    Year: 2008
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  16. The Anatomy of Wings

    The Anatomy of Wings

    by Karen Foxlee

    Year: 2008
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  17. All We Have Left Unsaid

    All We Have Left Unsaid

    by Maxine Case

    Year: 2007
    Category: Africa
  18. Vandal Love

    Vandal Love

    by Deni Yvan Béchard

    Year: 2007
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  19. In the Country of Men

    In the Country of Men

    by Hisham Matar

    Year: 2007
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  20. Tuvalu

    Tuvalu

    by Andrew O'Connor

    Year: 2007
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  21. Tropical Fish

    Tropical Fish

    Tales from Entebbe

    by Doreen Baingana

    Year: 2006
    Category: Africa
  22. Suspended Sentences

    Suspended Sentences

    Fictions of Atonement

    by Mark A. McWatt

    Year: 2006
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  23. Lazy Eye

    Lazy Eye

    by Donna Daley-Clarke

    Year: 2006
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  24. The Harmony Silk Factory

    The Harmony Silk Factory

    by Tash Aw

    Year: 2006
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  25. Natasha and Other Stories

    Natasha and Other Stories

    by David Bezmozgis

    Year: 2005
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  26. Purple Hibiscus

    Purple Hibiscus

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Year: 2005
    Category: Overall
  27. The Sari Shop

    The Sari Shop

    by Rupa Bajwa

    Year: 2005
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  28. Home

    Home

    by Larissa Behrendt

    Year: 2005
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  29. Gardening at Night

    Gardening at Night

    by Diane Awerbuck

    Year: 2004
    Category: Africa
  30. Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

    Madame Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

    by Kate Taylor

    Year: 2004
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  31. Somewhere, Home

    Somewhere, Home

    by Nada Awar Jarrar

    Year: 2004
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  32. Waiting for an Angel

    Waiting for an Angel

    by Helon Habila

    Year: 2003
    Category: Africa
  33. The Scent of a Lie

    The Scent of a Lie

    by Paulo da Costa

    Year: 2003
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  34. Haweswater

    Haweswater

    by Sarah Hall

    Year: 2003
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  35. The Rice Mother

    The Rice Mother

    by Rani Manicka

    Year: 2003
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  36. Ama

    Ama

    A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

    by Manu Herbstein

    Year: 2002
    Category: Africa
  37. Martin Sloane

    Martin Sloane

    by Michael Redhill

    Year: 2002
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  38. The 18th Pale Descendant

    The 18th Pale Descendant

    by William Muir

    Year: 2002
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  39. In the Blue House

    In the Blue House

    by Meaghan Delahunt

    Year: 2002
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  40. Thirteen Cents

    Thirteen Cents

    by K. Sello Duiker

    Year: 2001
    Category: Africa
  41. Burning Ground

    Burning Ground

    by Pearl Luke

    Year: 2001
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  42. White Teeth

    White Teeth

    by Zadie Smith

    Year: 2001
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  43. The Company

    The Company

    by Arabella Edge

    Year: 2001
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  44. The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories

    The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories

    by Funso Aiyejina

    Year: 2000
    Category: Africa
  45. Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

    Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain

    by Jeffrey Moore

    Year: 2000
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  46. The Blue Bedspread

    The Blue Bedspread

    by Raj Kamal Jha

    Year: 2000
    Category: South Asia and Europe
  47. Reconnaissance

    Reconnaissance

    by Kapka Kassabova

    Year: 2000
    Category: South East Asia and Pacific
  48. The Clothes of Nakedness

    The Clothes of Nakedness

    by Benjamin Kwakye

    Year: 1999
    Category: Africa
  49. The Electrical Field

    The Electrical Field

    by Kerri Sakamoto

    Year: 1999
    Category: Caribbean and Canada
  50. Difficult Daughters

    Difficult Daughters

    by Manju Kapur

    Year: 1999
    Category: South Asia and Europe

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