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Wales Book of the Year 2007 Short List Announcement

Wales Book of the Year 2007 Short List Announcment
6.45 pm – 28 May 2007
Elmley Foundation Theatre – Guardian Hay Festival

At 6.45 pm on Monday 28 May, the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Short List will be announced at the Guardian Hay Festival when .

The Short List of 3 Welsh-language books and 3 English-language books will be announced at the Elmley Foundation Theatre. At the event, John Rowlands will deliver an adjudication on behalf of the Welsh-language panel and Katie Gramich will deliver an adjudication on behalf of the English-language panel. The Shortlisted authors will discuss their work with Jon Gower and there will be a wine reception and a book signing session at the Literature in Wales stand following the event.

“It was refreshing to be part of a judging process that didn’t involve phoning, texting or pressing a red button. But we still had to nominate so many literary contestants for eviction. And the sheer diversity of their writing made the task extremely difficult,”  - those were the comments of Carolyn Hitt, Chair of the English-language panel of judges, at the announcement of the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List on 2 March.

However, the judges have now faced the difficult task of selecting three of the ten longlisted books to appear on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Short List.

Who will step onto the stage at the Hay Festival this year? If you’d like to be the first to find out who’s in with the chance to win the £10,000 prize, book your tickets now.

Tickets are free of charge and are available from the Hay Festival Box Office: 0870 9901299

The Wales Book of the Year Awards are administered by Academi with the support of the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Assembly Government and the Welsh Books Council.