http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonwealth_Writers_prizes

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize was changed in 2012 to be a Best First Book Prize only.

Best First Book
2012 – Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka

Best Book
2011 – The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
2010 – Solo by Rana Dasgupta
2009 – The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
2008 – Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (U.S. title: Someone Knows My Name)
2007 – Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
2006 – Kate Grenville, The Secret River
2005 – Andrea Levy, Small Island
2004 – Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
2003 – Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe
2002 – Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish
2001 – Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 – John Maxwell Coetzee, Disgrace
1999 – Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
1998 – Peter Carey, Jack Maggs
1997 – Earl Lovelace, Salt
1996 – Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
1995 – Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
1994 – Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
1993 – Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game
1992 – Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
1991 – David Malouf, The Great World
1990 – Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
1989 – Janet Frame, The Carpathians
1988 – Festus Iyayi, Heroes
1987 – Olive Senior, Summer Lightning