Christos Tsiolkas has been announced as the winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Prize for The Slap. Mohammed Hanif was awared the Best First Book Prize for his novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes. This year's prize-giving ceremony was held at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival in New Zealand on Saturday May 16th.
The overall winners of the main prizes - Best Book and Best First Book - are chosen from the winners of these categories from each of the commonwealth regions. You can see the full list of shortlisted titles in each region here.
