The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh was named the Eurasia regional winner for the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize on March 12 -- and was thus a contender for the final prize to be announced in April. But it seems there was one hitch. His publishers were oblivious to his objections to the term "Commonwealth Literature". For isn't it "completely unlike any other literary term (would it not surprise us, for instance, if that familiar category "English literature" were to be renamed 'the literature of the Norman Conquest'?)" as he wrote in his letter to the contest administrators.