Maxine Case winner of Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Africa region in category Best First Book

Kwela Books has announced that Maxine Case has been selected as the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Africa region in the category Best First Book for her debut novel, All We Have Left Unsaid.

Case will now go on to compete against the winners in the other six Commonwealth regions: Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, South Asia, South-East Asia and the South Pacific. The overall winners are to be announced at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica on 27 May, 2007.

This is the first time that Kwela Books has made it onto the short-list for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the first time in five years that a novel published by a South African publisher has been chosen as winner in either of the two prize categories.