Wales Book of the Year

Wales Book of the Year

Wales Book of the Year prizes are awarded annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors.

Established in 1992, the awards are currently administered by the Academi, and supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Books Council. In 2006, the prizes were each £10,000. In 2007, for the first time, four runners-up (two in each language) also each received £1000.

Recent winners

English language

2008: Dannie Abse "The Presence" (Hutchinson)

2007: Lloyd Jones "Mr Cassini" (Seren)

2006: Robert Minhinnick "To Babel and Back" (Seren)

2005: Owen Sheers "The Dust Diaries" (Faber and Faber)

2004: Niall Griffiths "Stump" (Jonathan Cape)

2003: Charlotte Williams "Sugar and Slate" (Planet)

2002: Stevie Davies "The Element of Water" (The Women’s Press)

2001: Stephen Knight "Mr Schnitzel" (Viking)

2000: Sheenagh Pugh "Stonelight" (Seren)

Welsh language

2008: Gareth Miles "Y Proffwyd a'l Ddwy Jesebel "

2007: Llwyd Owen "Ffydd Gobaith Cariad" (Lolfa)

2006: Rhys Evans "Gwynfor: Rhag Pob Brad" (Y Lolfa)

2005: Caryl Lewis "Martha, Jac a Sianco"

2004: Jerry Hunter "Llwch Cenhedloedd"

2003: Angharad Price "O! Tyn y Gorchudd"

2008 Controversy

There was some controversy at the 2008 ceremony when Plaid Cymru Assembly Member Rhodri Glyn Thomas incorrectly announced the winner as being novelist Tom Bullough, who was in fact one of the shortlisted authors but not the outright winner. The prize went to Dannie Abse. Thomas resigned from his post on the Welsh Assembly cabinet less than three weeks later.

External links

* [http://www.academi.org/book-of-the-year/ Academi: Wales Book of the Year]

References

* [http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/02/tribute-to-lost-wife-is-the-book-of-the-year-91466-21212635/] icWales article on 2008 awards


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