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Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2006 Winners Announced
14 March 2006
The overall winners of the 20th Commonwealth Writers' Prize were announced tonight by His Royal Highness, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KCVO, ADC at the State Library of Victoria.
The Overall Best Book award, worth 10,000 pounds, went to The Secret River by Kate Grenville, of Australia. The Overall Best First Book award, of 3000 pounds, was awarded to Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement by Mark McWatt of Guyana.
Head of the judging panel, Emeritus Professor Chris Wallace-Crabbe, of the University of Melbourne, Australia, said 'This year's Best Book, Kate Grenville's The Secret River, is a powerful historical novel which acknowledges the competing claims of settlers and Aborigines in 19th-century Australia. In the Best First Book winner, Suspended Sentences, Caribbean writer Mark McWatt presents a delightful caravan of stories that explore the changing character of Guyana.'
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize, awarded annually, rewards the best in Commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers.
Read more about the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2006 >
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