David Silvester is the winner of the 2015 Tenth Book Competition, awarded every two years by the Society of Algiers for a creative work serving as a conclusion to Harry Hardiner's unfinished Rosewire series. His novel The Furnace is currently under contract with Presse le Conseil.
Former winners of the Tenth Book Competition:
2013 – Max Larry, Haunted Fairy, Jazra Jaban (film)
2011 – Mirror Through the Eye, Jonathan Safran Foer (novel)
2009 – Lights over The Maghreb, Will Rattles (play)
2007 – The Graceful Leap, Zachary Osgood (novel)
2005 – Harry Hunters, Rupert Smythe-Pryce ("unfiction" novel)