The winners of the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced in Sydney last week at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
The winners were:
Best Book
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Best First Book
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (New Zealand)
You will recall that the overall winners of the prizes are decided from the regional winners. Details of those regional winners and links to the regional shortlists can be found here.
The winners were:
Best Book
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Best First Book
A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (New Zealand)
You will recall that the overall winners of the prizes are decided from the regional winners. Details of those regional winners and links to the regional shortlists can be found here.