Wales Book of the Year 2010 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2010 Wales Book of the Year award was announced yesterday on the final day of the .
Philip Gross, Terri Wiltshire and Nikolai Tolstoy have been selected as the three shortlisted authors for the £10,000 prize, which will be awarded in a ceremony in Cardiff on 30 June.
Winner of the 2010 TS Eliot Prize, Philip Gross is shortlisted for I Spy Pinhole Eye, his work of poems and photographs that address the ideas of perception, revelation and truth.
American born Terri Wiltshire is selected for her novel Carry Me ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, a story set in Alabama (where the author was raised) about loyalty and belonging. Wiltshire now lives in Newport, south Wales.
And Nikolai Tolstoy is shortlisted for The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which seeks to establish the chronology and provenance of the early medieval tales.
The shortlist for the Welsh language prize was also announced and consists of Banerog, a volume of poetry by Hywel Griffiths, Naw Mis, a novel by Caryl Lewis and Cymru: Y 100 Lle I'w Gweld Cyn Marw, by John Davies.
Read more on the Wales Book of the Year site on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales Arts, and visit the for more information on the prize.
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