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	Commonwealth Writers Prize: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...Commonwealth Writers Prize Commonwealth Writers Prize The Commonwealth Writers...each of the four Commonwealth regions.
		Since 2002 it is known as the Man Booker prize,...of the prize, judges are selected from critics, writers and academics.
		The Commonwealth Writers Prize was established in 1987.
	www.encyclopedian.com /co/Commonwealth-Writers-Prize.html (246 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Commonwealth Writers' Prize, organised and funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, is a leading award for fiction that was first awarded in 1987.
		The aim of the Prize is to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction, and to ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
		The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is funded and administered by the Commonwealth Foundation.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Commonwealth_Writers_Prize (446 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize to be Announced in Melbourne
		The Commonwealth Foundation, sponsor of this annual literary award, stated that Melbourne has been chosen for the final judging of the next CWP to coincide with the Commonwealth Games.
		The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was established in 1987 to encourage and reward the growth of new Commonwealth fiction, and to promote works of merit to a wider audience outside their country of origin.
		The CWP recognises the outstanding literary talent in the Commonwealth and its contribution to contemporary writing in English.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /news/34580/34581/146633/2006_commonwealth_writers__prize_to_be_announced_i.htm (514 words)

	General News of Wednesday, 30 March 2005
		This is an impressive first novel that transcends national relevance." The Commonwealth Writers' Prize established in 1987 is one of the most important literary prizes in the world.
		To be eligible, the authors must be citizens of one of the Commonwealth's 53 member countries.
		It is financed and sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation, an inter-governmental organisation funded by the Commonwealth governments to support civil society across the Commonwealth.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=78256 (211 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Munro, Behrens shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers Prize
		Acclaimed author Alice Munro is among the Canadians shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
		Canada and the Caribbean are grouped together in one region for the preliminary round of the prize.
		Turkish writer reported in exile in U.S. Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk has fled his home country of Turkey and is now living in exile in the United States, reports say.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/story/2007/02/09/commonwealth-prize-shortlist.html (1358 words)

	Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It awards £10,000 to the best book submitted, £5,000 to the best first book, and £1,000 each to the best book and best first book of an author in each of the four Commonwealth regions, South East Asia and the South Pacific, Eurasia, Africa, the Caribbean and Canada.
		The prize is sponsored and organised by the Commonwealth Foundation.
		Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Winners, Best First Book Winners, External links, Literary awards, British literary awards and 1987 establishments.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Commonwealth_Writers_Prize (253 words)

	Go-Local Jamaica
		The shortlist for four regions in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize was announced on January 23.
		The Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
		This prize celebrates the outstanding literary talent that exists in many parts of the Commonwealth and its contribution to contemporary writing in English.
	www.golocaljamaica.com /readarticle.php?ArticleID=6561 (295 words)

	8 May 2006. 20th Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Winner Meets the Queen
		The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, awarded annually, aims to reward the best in Commonwealth fiction written in English, by both established and new writers, and to take their work to a wider audience.
		The Commonwealth Writers' Prize South East Asia and South Pacific region judges described her novel The Secret River as ‘an immensely powerful book that returns to the foundational moment of Australian settler history to rethink the nature of settler engagement with the land.
		The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize recognises the outstanding literary talent in the Commonwealth and its contribution to contemporary writing in English.
	www.newsahead.com /press_releases/Commonwealth_Prize_writers_May_06.htm (601 words)

	Appointed to judge Commonwealth Writers Prize - The University of Auckland
		Appointed to judge Commonwealth Writers Prize - The University of Auckland
		The international fiction award, run by the Commonwealth Foundation, was established in 1987 to encourage and reward new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
		Prizes are awarded to the best book and best first book for each of four regions, with an overall international winner.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/about/news/articles/2005/12/prize_judge.cfm (236 words)

	Literary prize adds to library celebrations - theage.com.au
		The annual literary program for the Commonwealth Writers Prize will be held in Melbourne in autumn 2004 and will play a major part in the 150th anniversary celebrations of the State Library of Victoria.
		The prize is awarded annually to the best work of fiction or collection of short stories in English by a writer from a Commonwealth country.
		It is worth £10,000 ($28,000) to the winner, while a prize of £3000 is given to the author of the best first novel or collection of short stories.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/10/1036308573941.html (318 words)

	Canadian Booksellers Association - News
		The winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Caribbean and Canada region will be announced on Thursday, January 26 at 7:30 pm in Calgary at Pages Books on Kensington (1135 Kensington Rd. NW).
		Jurors for the 2006 Caribbean and Canada region are Canadian writers Aritha van Herk and Robert Kroetsch, and Jamaican writer and theatre director Yvonne Brewster.
		Awarded annually, the Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward outstanding literary writing throughout the Commonwealth.
	www.cbabook.org /awards/article.asp?id=511 (402 words)

	Commonwealth Writers' Prize, State Library of Victoria
		The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is a prestigious annual event which rewards and celebrates excellence in contemporary fiction writing throughout the Commonwealth.
		The State Library of Victoria is hosting the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize from 9 to 14 March.
		The Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2006 Program is supported by a range of sponsors.
	www.slv.vic.gov.au /programs/literary/cwp/index.html (264 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Eurasia winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize were announced in an elegant literary evening, organised with the British Council in Kolkata.
		The idea of the prize is "to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin".
		That writers of various nationalities writing in various Englishes are chosen on the same platform as Mother English for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize speaks of the fundamental commitment that this award has to multiculturalism.
	www.the-week.com /25feb27/columns_home.htm (714 words)

	Australia supports Commonwealth Writers Prize 18 May 2006
		The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize has received a great show of support from Australia with news that the Macquarie Bank Foundation has agreed to fund the 21st Writers’ Prize in 2007 to the value of £50,000 ($120,000 AUD).
		The announcement was made at a reception at the Australian High Commission in London to honour author Kate Grenville, winner of the Overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2006.
		The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is held annually in four regions that cover the Commonwealth: Africa; Canada and the Caribbean; Europe and South Asia; and South-East Asia and the South Pacific.
	www.newsahead.com /press_releases/Australia_Commonwealth_Writers_May_06.htm (632 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		The Journey Prize itself is the most significant monetary award given in Canada to a writer at the beginning of his or her career for a short story or excerpt from a fiction work in progress.
		And, since prizes are so instrumental in telling potential readers about writers, we did think that many novels by women were possibly not being brought to the attention of readers who'd appreciate them.
		QWF (Quebec Writers' Federation) was born when members of FEWQ (Federation of English Writers of Quebec) and QSPELL (Quebec Society for the Promotion of English Language Literature) voted in 1998 to unite their activities.
	www.nwpassages.com /awards.asp (2768 words)

	Commonwealth Foundation - Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The outstanding literary talent exists in many parts of the Commonwealth is making a significant contribution to contemporary writing in English.
		To encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin, the Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1987.
		The objectives of the prize are to promote new voices, reward achievement, encourage wider readership and greater literacy, thereby increasing appreciation of different cultures and building understanding between cultures
	www.commonwealthfoundation.com /culturediversity/writersprize/index.cfm?sPrint=1 (95 words)

	Prizes Links - Literature - British Council - Arts
		The Aventis Prizes for Science Books are an annual book prize, which celebrate the best in popular science writing for adults and children.
		The Prizes are managed by the Royal Society, in cooperation with the prize's sponsor: pharmaceutical company Aventis.
		There are two categories: The Junior Prize, which is given to the best book written for under-14s, and the General Prize, for the best book written for a more general readership.
	www.britishcouncil.org /arts-literature-links-prizes.htm (794 words)

	Amitav Ghosh declines Commonwealth Writers Prize: Amitav Ghosh declines Commonwealth Writers Prize
		The prize requires that the entry be from writers belonging to the Commonwealth region and that all entries be in English.
		Ghosh was the winner of the 1999 Pushcart Prize, a leading literary award, for an essay that was published in the Kenyon Review.
		In 1999, he was a finalist in the reporting category for the National Magazine Awards, the most important magazine prizes in the U.S., for a story he wrote the previous year for The New Yorker.
	www.firstandsecond.com /archive/ArchiveDetails.asp?arid=93 (603 words)

	UWI professor awarded two top literary prizes - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The latter prize was won in the 'Caribbean Literature Section in English or Creole' category.
		McWatt is expected to travel to Melbourne, Australia next month to enter the final stage of the 20th Commonwealth Writers' Prize competition - the international award for outstanding fiction.
		For the Casa prize, the judges said, "The book is distinguished by the originality and inventiveness of the literary ploy on which this anthology is based, of stories by supposedly real authors.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20060208T220000-0500_98285_OBS_UWI_PROFESSOR_AWARDED_TWO_TOP_LITERARY_PRIZES_.asp (406 words)

	Commonwealth Foundation - Home
		Commonwealth gives the green light for change as experts debate climate crisis
		Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2007 to be announced in Jamaica
		The Commonwealth Foundation is currently looking for an Intern to work in the area of Communications.
	www.commonwealthfoundation.com (102 words)

	Matilda: Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Details of the regional winners for the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize have been released.
		The Prize provides for winners in the two categories of Best Book and Best First Book, and regional winners are chosen from Africa, Caribbean & Canada, Eurasia, and SE Asia & South Pacific.
		Australian novels have done quite well with this prize in the past, with Best Book winners in 1991 David Malouf The Great World, 1993 Alex Miller The Ancestor Game, 1998 Peter Carey Jack Maggs, 1999 Murray Bail Eucalyptus, 2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang, and 2002 Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish.
	www.middlemiss.org /weblog/archives/matilda/2005/02/commonwealth_wr.html (177 words)

	Commonwealth Press Union - Commonwealth Awards
		The Dan Eldon Prize (£250) will be awarded to a young photographer aged 18-30 on 1 September 2004, whose work is used for social or humanitarian purposes.
		The Creative Visions Foundation who are sponsoring this prize was set up to assist and encourage young photographers, artists and film makers to create work which will help to stimulate positive change in the world.
		The same criteria apply for this Prize as for the rest of the Awards but entrants should also submit a short paragraph describing how, why and when the photograph was used for social or humanitarian purposes.
	www.cpu.org.uk /photoaward.html (560 words)

	Ian Randle Publishers - News Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Commonwealth Writers Prize, on Monday March3, announced that the 2003 Regional Prize for Canada and the Americas for the Best Book has been awarded to Austin ‘Tom’ Clarke the Barbadian novelist for his novel THE POLISHED HOE, published in the Caribbean by Ian Randle Publishers.
		With the assistance of the Canadian High Commission in Jamaica, Clarke who is known for his mentorship role among young writers, will meet with members of the UWI Creative Writing Group, A-level students, teachers and student teachers from the island’s teacher training colleges and aspiring young writers in a series of short workshops.
		The two regional prize-winning books will be carried forward to the next stage of the Commonwealth Writers Prize where one from each category will be chosen as the overall winner.
	www.ianrandlepublishers.com /past_news.html (2643 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: On Beauty wins Commonwealth prize
		Zadie Smith's Booker Prize shortlisted novel 'On Beauty' has been named as one of the regional winners of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
		Established in 1987, the annual Commonwealth Writers' Prize is open to writers from the 53-nation Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies.
		A prize of £10,000 will be awarded to the author of the overall best book, picked from the four regional finalists - Africa; the Caribbean and Canada; Eurasia; South East Asia and the South Pacific.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2006/0207/smithz.html (311 words)

	WordFest 2007
		The 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional shortlists were announced last week and WordFest alumni have done well.
		WordFest alumni Rawi Hage is a finalist for the $15,000 fiction prize, while both Noah Richler and Rudy Wiebe are finalists for the $15,000 non-fiction prize.
		Local Calgary writer, Martin West, is a finalist for the Journey Prize valued at $10,000 and given for then best short story or excerpt from a novel-in-progress by a new and developing writer.
	www.wordfest.com (263 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - Commonwealth Writers Prize Winners
		British writer Caryl Phillips receives his cheque for £ 10,000 for winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award from the Hon Steve Bracks.
		Now in its 18th year, the Commonwealth Writers Prize was established by the Commonwealth Foundation in 1987 to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
		During the Awards Dinner, Colin Ball, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, said, "While since 1987 the Prize has aimed to promote and recognise excellence in literature, today the Prize also helps us to better understand the human condition.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /news/34580/34581/37821/writersprizewinners.htm (551 words)

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