2005 Award

Winner: Owen Sheers, The Dust Diaries (Faber)

Owen Sheers

The Short List

Owen Sheers, The Dust Diaries (Faber)
Trezza Azzopardi, Remember Me (Picador)
Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed from the Sea (Seren Books)

The Dust Diaries     Remember Me     The Land as Viewed from the Sea

The authors on the Welsh-language Short List were Caryl Lewis, Bethan Gwanas and Elin Llwyd Morgan

The Long List

Trezza Azzopardi, Remember Me (Picador)
Des Barry, Cressida’s Bed (Jonathon Cape)
Richard Collins, The Land as Viewed From the Sea (Seren)
Stevie Davies, Kith and Kin (Weidenfield & Nicolson)
Trevor Fishlock, Conquerors of Time (John Murray)
Mike Jenkins, The Language of Fight (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch)
Deryn Rees-Jones, Quiver (Seren)
Kym Lloyd, The Book of Guilt (Sceptre)
Owen Sheers, The Dust Diaries (Faber)
John Williams, Temperance Town (Bloomsbury)

The Judges

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PANEL: Charlotte Williams (Chair), Tony Brown and Patrick Hannan

Charlotte Williams (Chair)     Tony Brown     Patrick Hannan

The Welsh-language panel of judges were Meg Elis (Chair), Tony Bianchi and Hafina Clwyd.