2010 Award

Wales Book of the Year 2010

The 2010 Wales Book of the Year Award, administered by the Academi with funding from the Arts Council of Wales, will be presented to the best Welsh language and English language works first published in 2009 in the fields of creative writing and literary criticism.

The 2010 award was launched with the announcement of the Long List of ten English-language books and ten Welsh-language books in Bangor on the 20 April, 2010. Click here for more information.

The Short List of three English-language books and three Welsh-language books were revealed at the Guardian Hay Festival on 6 June, 2010. Click here for further information. 

The 2010 Wales Book of the Year process came to an end in a glittering award ceremony in Cardiff on 30 June, 2010, where the two winners were awarded cheques of £10,000, and each of the four runners-up received £1,000. Click here to find out who won.