One of Pantera Press’s first books, Sulari Gentill’s A Few Right Thinking Men, shortlisted for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book for this region.
Alison (CEO and Founding Director)
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional shortlists for the South East Asia and Pacific region:
The nominees for best book are:
- Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey (Black Inc., Australia)
- That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott (Pan Macmillan, Australia)
- Time’s Long Ruin by Stephen Orr (Wakefield Press, Australia)
- Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones (Text, New Zealand)
- Notorious by Roberta Lowing (A&U, Australia)
- Gifted by Patrick Evans (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)
The nominees for best first book are:
- 21 Immortals by Rozlan Mohd Noor (Malaysia)
- A Man Melting by Craig Cliff (Random House NZ, New Zealand)
- The Graphologist’s Apprentice by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers, New Zealand)
- The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay (A&U, Australia)
- Traitor by Stephen Daisley (Text, Australia / New Zealand)
- A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill (Pantera Press, Australia).
The regional winners will be announced on 3 March. The winning titles will go on to compete against writers from other Commonwealth nations in the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, which will be presented at the Sydney Writers’ Festival in May.
Australian author Genda Guest won the best first book award in the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her book Siddon Rock (Vintage). The 2010 prize for best book went to English author Rana Dasgupta for Solo (Fourth Estate).
http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2011/02/18787/