Owen Sheers - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

  • 1999 Vogue Young Writer’s Award
  • 1999 Eric Gregory Award
  • 2000 short-listed for the Wales Book of the Year (for The Blue Book)
  • 2001 short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize Best 1st Collection
  • 2005 Wales Book of the Year (for The Dust Diaries)
  • 2006 Somerset Maugham Award (for Skirrid Hill)
  • 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award (for Resistance)
  • 2008 short-listed for Writers' Guild Best Book Award for Resistance
  • 2012 Winner Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for 'The Two Worlds of Charlie F.

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