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The 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the global fiction award for both established and new writers, is calling for entries, with a deadline of 15th November.
The prize covers the Commonwealth regions of Africa; the Caribbean and Canada; Europe and South Asia; and South East Asia and the Pacific. A Best Book and Best First Book prize will be awarded to two writers from each region, with each winner awarded £1,000. The eight winners will go forward to be judged by a pan-Commonwealth panel for the £10,000 Best Book prize and £5,000 Best First Book prize
The shortlists will be announced in February 2009, and the eight regional winners will be judged in May, when the overall winners will be announced.
Last year, Canadian Lawrence Hill won the overall Best Book prize for The Book of Negroes (Doubleday) and Tahmima Anam from Bangladesh took the overall Best First Book prize for A Golden Age (John Murray).