Wales Book of the Year

by shelagh | April 1, 2009 at 07:47 am

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Administered by the Academi with funding from the Arts Council of Wales.

The Wales Book of the Year prizes, administered by the Academi with funding from the Arts Council of Wales, are awarded to the best Welsh language and English language works in the fields of creative writing and literary criticism. Prizes of £10,000 are awarded for the best books published in the previous calendar year.

The 2008 winners were Dannie Abse for The Presence, published by Hutchinson and Gareth Miles for Y Proffwyd a’l Ddwy Jesebel published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch.

The 2009 award will be launched with the announcement of the Long List of ten English-language books and ten Welsh-language books in Bangor on the 22 April, 2009.

The Short List of three English-language books and three Welsh-language books will be announced at the Guardian Hay Festival on 26 May, 2009.

The 2009 Wales Book of the Year process will culminate in an award ceremony in Cardiff on 15 June, 2009, where the two winners will be awarded a cheque of £10,000 and each of the four runners-up will receive £1,000.

This year’s judges for the English-language award are poet, critic and lecturer at the University of Wales, Tiffany Atkinson; poet, essayist and former editor of Planet, John Barnie and broadcaster and travel writer Mike Parker (Chair).