Many congratulations to Salt author Carys Davies, whose book of short stories
Some New Ambush
has been selected as one of ten books on the
Wales Book of the Year 2008
. Over 200 entries were received from which 7 novels, 1 memoir, 1 book of poetry and 1 short story collection made it onto the long list:
Trezza Azzopardi Winterton Blue novel (Picador)
Kitti Harri Hector’s Talent novel (Honno)
Malcolm Pryce Don’t Cry for Me Aberystwyth novel (Bloomsbury)
Tom Bullough The Claude Glass novel (Sort Of Books)
Robert Lewis Swansea Terminal novel (Serpent’s Tail)
Nia Wyn Blue Sky July memoir (Seren)
John Barnie Trouble in Heaven poetry (Gomer)
Carys Davies Some New Ambush short stories (Salt Publishing)
Dannie Abse The Presence memoir (Hutchinson)
Tessa Hadley The Master Bedroom novel (Jonathan Cape)
Salt author
Elizabeth Baines
was there and has blogged about the event
here
. Here is a photo of Carys from Elizabeth’s blog
On Monday 26 May 2008, the ten will become three when the Short List is announced at the Hay Festival. Then on to Tuesday 1 July and the glittering ceremony in the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff where each language winner will receive a cheque for ?10,000 and four runners-up will receive ?1,000 each.
Many congratulations, Carys!
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