(No, not that kind of overalls.)
The overall winners for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize were announced last Sunday at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Kingston, Jamaica. I would have been there, but I had pressing business in Miami, Oklahoma.
Overall Best Book
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones (Penguin)
Overall Best First Book
Vandal Love, by D.Y. Béchard (Doubleday)
Messrs. Jones and Béchard are from New Zealand and Canada, respectively. How Commonwealth is that?
June 15th, 2007 at 10:48 am
[…] Just thought I’d remind you that yesterday’s Review of the Day, Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip, was the Overall Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. We hadn’t yet published our review when the award was announced because the book isn’t going to be published in the U.S. until August and weren’t able to get to it until the June issue. (Deep breath.) It’s a starred review! […]