2010 Award

The Winner - Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)

The Welsh language prize was awarded to John Davies for his book
Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw published by Y Lolfa.

The Short List

Nikolai Tolstoy, The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Edwin Mellen Press)
Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Terri Wiltshire, Carry Me Home (Macmillan)

The authors on the Welsh-language Short List were Caryl Lewis, Hywel Griffiths and
John Davies.

The Long List

Alun Trevor, The Songbird is Singing (Parthian)
Emyr Humphreys, The Woman at the Window (Seren)
Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow (Chatto & Windus)
Jasmine Donahaye, Self-Portrait as Ruth (Salt)
Mike Thomas, Pocket Notebook (Wiliam Heinemann)
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Edwin Mellen Press)
Peter Lord, The Meaning of Pictures (University of Wales Press)
Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye (Cinnamon)
Richard Marggraf Turley, Wan-Hu's Flying Chair (Salt)
Terri Wiltshire, Carry Me Home (Macmillan)

The Judges

Ian Gregson

  
Ian is a poet and a lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Bangor. He lectures on 19th and 20th Century Poetry, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, The Short Story and Creative Writing. In 1981 he received a Gregory Award for his poetry, which has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, and the London Review of Books amongst others. He has also reviewed poetry for a wide range of journals.

 

James Hawes

Fiction writer. James has been an English teacher, an archaeologist, a lecturer in Ireland before teaching German at the University of Swansea. He is the author of four thrillers, the second of which, Rancid Aluminium, was made into a film. The BBC has commissioned Andrew Davies to re-work Speak for England (Jonathan Cape, 2005) for television. He has written seven novels in total.
 

 

Sara Edwards

Sara was born in Wales but grew up and was educated in London where she graduated in Medieval and Modern History. Her broadcasting career started with Capital Radio, and she also contributed regular items to BBC Radio Four. Sara was a newsreader for HTV West before joining BBC Wales News where she was a co-presenter of the early-evening news programme, BBC News Today.

 

The judges on the Welsh-language panel were John Gwilym Jones, Aled Lewis Evans and Branwen Gwyn.