Past Winners and Judges

2011 Award

John Harrison, Cloud Road (Parthian)

Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me (Seren)

Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (Gollancz)

Judges
Francesca Rhydderch
Jon Gower
Deborah Kay Davies

2010 Award

Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)

Nikolai Tolstoy, The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (The Edwin Mellen Press)

Terri Wiltshire, Carry Me Home (Macmillan)

Judges
Ian Gregson
James Hawes
Sara Edwards

2009 Award

Deborah Kay Davies, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the beautiful (Parthian)

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Not In These Shoes (Picador)

Gee Williams, Blood etc. (Parthian)

Judges
Mike Parker
John Barnie
Tiffany Atkinson

2008 Award

Dannie Abse, The Presence (Hutchinson)

Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July (Seren)

Tom Bullough, The Claude Glass, Sort Of Books

Judges
Mavis Nicholson
Damian Walford Davies
Trevor Fishlock

2007 Award

Lloyd Jones, Mr Cassini (Seren)

Jim Perrin, The Climbing Essays (In Pinn)

Christine Evans, Growth Rings (Seren)

Judges
Carolyn Hitt
Katie Gramich
Patrick McGuinness
 

2006 Award

Robert Minhinnick, To Babel and Back (Seren)

Kitty Sewell, Ice Trap (Honno)

Ifor Thomas, Body Beautiful (Parthian)

Judges
Nicola Heywood Thomas
John Sam Jones
Daniel Williams

2005 Award

Owen Sheers, The Dust Diaries (Faber)

Trezza Azzopardi, Remember Me, Picador

Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed from the Sea, Seren

Judges
Charlotte Williams
Tony Brown
Patrick Hannan

2004 Award

Niall Griffiths, Stump (Jonathan Cape)

Emyr Humphreys, Old People Are A Problem (Seren)

Gwyneth Lewis, Keeping Mum (Bloodaxe Books)

Judges
Heike Roms
Sheenagh Pugh
Mario Basini

2003 Award

Charlotte Williams, Sugar and Slate (Planet)

Jo Mazelis, Diving Girls (Parthian)

Sheenagh Pugh, The Beautiful Lie (Seren)

Judges
Brenda Maddox
Nicholas Murray
Hazel Walford Davies

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2002 Award

Stevie Davies, The Element of Water (The Women’s Press)

Matthew Francis, Dragons (Faber)

Jean Earle, Bed of Memory (Seren)

Judges
Paul Ferris
Stephen Knight
Mavis Nicholson

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2001 Award

Stephen Knight, Mr Schnitzel (Viking)

Desmond Barry, D (Cape)

Owen Sheers, The Blue Book (Seren Books)

Judges
Bernice Rubens
Peter Florence
Peter Stead

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2000 Award

Sheenagh Pugh, Stonelight (Seren Books)

Stevie Davies, Impassioned Clay (The Women’s Press)

Sarah Waters, Affinity (Virago)

Judges
Walford Davies
Jeni Williams
Catherine Merriman

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1999 Award

Emyr Humphreys, The Gift of a Daughter (Seren Books)

Gillian Clarke, Five Fields (Carcanet Press)

Gwyneth Lewis, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe Books)

Judges
Stevie Davies
Glyn Pursglove
Catherine Fisher

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1998 Award

Mike Jenkins, Wanting to Belong (Seren Books)

Stevie Davies, The Web of Belonging (The Women’s Press)

Sheenagh Pugh, Id’s Hospit (Seren Books)

Judges
Merryn Williams
Dai Smith
John Pikoulis

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1997 Award

Siân James, Not Singing Exactly (Honno)

Ruth Bidgood, The Fluent Moment (Seren Books)

Rhidian Brook, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (Flamingo)

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1996 Award

Nigel Jenkins, Gwalia in Khasia (Gwasg Gomer)

Gwyneth Lewis, Parables and Faxes (Bloodaxe Books)

R S Thomas, No Truce with the Furies (Bloodaxe Books)

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1995 Award

Duncan Bush, Masks (Seren Books)

Robert Minhinnick, Hey Fatman (Seren Books)

Jan Morris, A Machynlleth Triad (Hutchinson)

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1994 Award

Paul Ferris, Caitlin: The Life of Caitlin Thomas (Hutchinson)

Gillian Clarke, The King of Britain’s Daughter (Carcanet Press)

Christopher Evans, Aztec Century (Victor Gollancz)

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1993 Award

Robert Minhinnick, Watching the Fire Eater (Seren Books)

Andrew Davies, B Monkey (Limetree/ Minereva)

Ruth Bidgood, Selected Poems (Seren Books)

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1992 Award

Emyr Humphreys, Bonds of Attachment (Macdonald/ Sphere)

Christopher Meredith, Griffri (Seren Books)

Catherine Merriman, Silly Mothers (Honno)