The shortlists for best book and best first book of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the South East Asia and Pacific region have been announced. Here are the nominated books:
Nominees for best book
- Summertime by J M Coetzee
- A Good Land by Nada Awar Jarrar
- The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt
- Singularity by Charlotte Grimshaw
- The People's Train by Thomas Keneally
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Nominees for best first book
- The Ice Age by Kirsten Reed
- After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
- Look Who's Morphing by Tom Cho
- Document Z by Andrew Croome
- Come Inside by Glenys Osborne
- Siddon Rock by Glenda Guest
For more information on the Commonwealth Writers' Prize click here.
