• Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009
Regionala vinnare:
AFRIKA
Bästa bok: Mandla Langa (Sydafrika) The Lost Colours of the Chameleon
Bästa debut: Uwem Akpan (Nigeria) Say You're One of Them
CANADA OCH KARIBIEN
Bästa bok:Marina Endicott (Kanada) Good to a Fault
Bästa debut: Joan Thomas (Canada) Reading by Lightning
EUROPA OCH SYDASIEN
Bästa bok: Jhumpa Lahiri (Storbrittanien) Unaccustomed Earth
Vinnare: Bästa debut:Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
SYDOSTASIEN OCH STILLA HAVET
Vinnare: Bästa bok: Christos Tsiolkas (Australien) The Slap
Bästa debut: Mo Zhi Hong (New Zealand) The Year of the Shanghai Shark

• Independent foreign Fiction Prize
Shortlist:
Celine Curiol, Voice Over (translated by Sam Richard from the French)
Ma Jian, Beijing Coma (translated by Flora Drew from the Chinese)
Ismail Kadare, The Siege (translated David Bellos from the Albanian via French)
Vinnare: Evelio Rosero (Colombia), The Armies (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish)
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Informers (translated by Anne McLean from the Spanish)
AB Yehoshua, Friendly Fire (translated by Stuart Schoffman from the Hebrew)

• Reina Sofia de Poesia Iberoamericana
José Emilio Pacheco (Mexiko)

•Premio Grinzane Cavour
bl.a.
Kader Abdolah (Iran/Holland)
Aravind Adiga (Indien)
Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay)
• Principe de Asturias letras
Ismail Kadaré (Albanien)
• Romulo Gallegos
William Ospina (Colombia) El país de la canela
• Orange Prize
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
. International IMPAC Literary Award
Michael Thomas (USA) Man Gone Down