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An afternoon with Owen Sheers

Saturday 7 June 2008, 2.00 pm
Studio 2, Galeri, Caernarfon
Tickets: £8 / £7 OAPs / £4 Children, Students, Prima members

Owen Sheers, poet, novelist, playwright and short story writer, was born in Fiji, brought up in Abergavenny, and was educated at New College, Oxford and the University of East Anglia (Creative Writing MA). His first collection of poetry, The Blue Book, was published by Seren in 2000 and was short listed for Wales Book of the Year in 2001.

Owen was named by The Independent on Sunday as one of Britain’s Top Thirty Young Writers. His last collection of poems, Skirrid Hill, was on the Wales Book of the Year 2006 Long List and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2006. In August 2007, Owen dramatised and interpreted Alun Lewis’ lives and letters in a BBC Radio 4 production directed by Kate MaCall in a play called If I Should Go Away. His first novel, Resistance, was published by Faber in 2007 and is now available in paperback.

Visiting Galeri for the first time, Owen Sheers will talk about his writing and read from his work, with questions from the audience to follow.

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