Wales Book of the Year information

The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary...

imprint of Penguin General. The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, and won the 2022 Wales Book of the Year. The Fortune Men is a non-fiction...

Year category split into two categories: Children's Fiction Book of the Year and Children's Illustrated and Non-fiction Book of the Year. This year also...

following the travels of Sheers' great-great-uncle, Arthur Shearly Cripps, it won the Wales Book of the Year in 2005, and was also shortlisted for the Royal...

and won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002. Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, England, but lived in Wales from when she was a week old. The Davies family...

reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell...

literary-based ventures. The organisation also selects the National Poet for Wales, and manages competitions including Wales Book of the Year, the Cardiff International...

Cent Derniers Jours. It won the Writers' Guild Award for Fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. He won Wales Book of the Year a second time , in 2015, for...

Wales (Welsh: Cymru [ˈkəmrɨ] ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by the Irish Sea to the north and west, England to the...

the Wales Book of the Year award. Griffiths was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, but had a long family link to Welsh roots in West Wales. As a nine-year-old...

individual poem, while his collections of essays have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Award. Minhinnick edited Poetry Wales magazine from 1997 to 2008. His...

debut novel Pigeon won the Wales Book of the Year in 2017. Alys Conran was born in north-west Wales, and is the daughter of the poet and translator Tony...

community in Wales. It is situated at the southern end of the Rhymney Valley. It is 7 mi (11 km) north of Cardiff and 12 mi (19 km) northwest of Newport....

Caryl Lewis (born 7 July 1978) is a Welsh novelist. She won the Wales Book of the Year in 2005 with her novel Martha Jac a Sianco, which was adapted into...

Wales Book of the Year Awards won the 'triple crown': taking the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and the...

collection, Masks, was a Poetry Society recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year award for an English-language work. His poetry and short fiction...

novelist. Her debut novel This Is Not Who We Are was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2023. Her second novel, Assimilation (Honno, 2024) explores...

won the Wales Book of the Year for Welsh language fiction. Journalist Martin Shipton described him as "one of the most influential figures in the 20th...

and Wales Book of the Year award laureate. Ailbhe Darcy was born in 1981 and grew up in Dublin. In 2015, she was awarded an MFA and a PhD from the University...

set during the Russian Revolution, which went on to win the Wales Book of the Year award. His work has been described as an example of the postmodern...

"Rock of Ages – Ethiopian Highlands" 2015 Wales Book of the Year Shortlisted for Down to the Sea in Ships 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year winner...

contesting the St Clears ward. However, he was heavily defeated at the election by the sitting Independent councillor. At the Academi 2008 Wales Book of the Year...

the year 2023 in Wales. First Minister – Mark Drakeford Secretary of State for Wales – David T. C. Davies Archbishop of Wales – Andy John, Bishop of Bangor...

two Forward Prizes for Best Individual Poem and has received the Wales Book of the Year award a record three times (in 1993, 2006 and 2018). Minhinnick...

awarded the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2015. Her short story collections have been short- or long-listed for prizes, including Wales Book of the Year. She...

accomplished writer of prose. In 1996, he won the Wales Book of the Year prize for his travel book Gwalia in Khasia (1995) – the story of the Welsh Calvinistic...