Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional winners' shortlist announced!

The shortlist for regional winners has been unveiled in the race to win the influential 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Both Anthony Cartright's HEARTLAND and Anne Berry's THE HUNGRY GHOST made it onto the shortlist for  South Asia and Europe Best Book and for South Asia and Europe Best First Book respectively.

The Prize is presented by the Commonwealth Foundation with support from the Macquarie Group Foundation. The final programme, starting on 7 April in Delhi, India will bring together the finalists from the different regions of the Commonwealth, and the two overall winners will be announced there on 12 April. 

The Director of the Commonwealth Foundation, Mark Collins, said:
"The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is distinct and unique in that the books that win often have strong insight, spirit and voice about the incredible diversity, history and society of the Commonwealth. The Prize aims to reward the best of Commonwealth fiction written in English and in doing so, spots rising talent and creates new literary figures from the Commonwealth. This is the Prize to watch for tomorrow's best-sellers."

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