Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Best Book Winner
Solo by Rana Dasgupta (The UK)
Best First Book Winner
Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
(Australian)
Regional Winners
Africa
Best First Book –
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubeni
(Nigeria)
Best Book –
Double Crown by Marie Heese
(South Africa)
The Caribbean and Canada
Best First Book –
Under this unbroken sky by Shandi Mitchell (Canada)
Best Book –
Galore by Michael Crummey
(Canada)
South Asia and Europe
Best First Book
In other rooms, other wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
(Pakistan)
Best Book –
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
(The UK )
South East Asia and Pacific
Best First Book –
Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest (Australia)
Best Book –
The adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt (Samoa)
South East Asia and Pacific
Best Book Shortlist
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
(Australia)
A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar
(Australia)
The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt (Samoa)
Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw
(New Zealand)
The People’s Train by Thomas Keneally
(Australia)
Parrot and Oliver in America by Peter Carey (Australia)
Best First Book Shortlist
The Ice Age by Kirsten Reed
(Australia)
After the fire, a still small voice by Evie Wyld
(Australia)
Look Who’s Morphing by Tom Cho
(Australia)
Document Z by Andrew Croome
(Australia)
Come Inside by Glenys Osborne
(Australia)
Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
(Australia)
The shortlist of the 2010 IMPAC
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
(Dutch) in translation
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
(French) in translation
Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
(British)
Settlement by Christoph Hein
(German) in translation
The Believers by Zoë Heller
(British)
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
(Irish)
God’s Own Country by Ross Raisin
(British)
Home by Marilynne Robinson
(American)
NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Shortlist 2010
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
88 Lines about 44 Women by Steven Lang
Ransom by David Malouf
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Douglas Stewart Prize For Non-Fiction
The Water Dreamers by Dr Michael Cathcart
Churchill and Australia by Graham Freudenberg
Piano Lessons by Dr Anna Goldsworthy
The Wolf by Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen
Kill Khalid by Paul McGeough
Up from the Mission: Selected by Noel Pearson