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!
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August 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
[…] Lloyd Jones wins another award for Mister Pip. It took me awhile to figure out why my home state was honoring a writer from New Zealand. But I did figure it out: they’re not. From TVNZ (”Lloyd Jones clinches Montana award“): Lloyd Jones has won the medal for fiction or poetry with his universally acclaimed novel, Mister Pip, at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards presented at a gala ceremony in Auckland on Monday night. […]