Commonwealth writer's prize 2007

New Zealand author Lloyd Jones has won the South-East Asia and South Pacific region of the Commonwealth writer's prize 2007 for his book Mr Pip. You can read a news article about the award here. The book was also discussed as part of ABC's the First Tuesday Bookclub in March and you can view streaming video of the discussion at the ABC site. Have you read the book? What did you think?

Also a winner in the First Book category was Australian author Andrew O'Connor for his first novel Tuvalu. I reviewed the book back in January. I have to say it is a book I've thought about for a long while after reading it, and I do recommend it. It's the second prize that this book has picked up as it also won the 2005 Australian/Vogel literary award.

- Anne.