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Biography

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Bibliography

Encounters with Karl Francis
Teithio Drwy Hanes
Peace in the City
Arwyr Cymru
Academi Mr Dwm
Creep
Vigilant Imagination: the Art of John Selway
Y Duwch
Rebel Rebel
Gwalia Patagonia
Norte
Clymau
Encounters with Dylan Thomas
Encounters with Nigel Jenkins
Breision
Too Cold for Snow
Wales-At Water's Edge
The Story of Wales
Y Storiwr
Uncharted
Dala'r Llanw
Real Llanelli
A Long Mile
I Know Another Way: From Tintern to St David's
An Island Called Smith
Big Fish
Llanelli
Wales in our Own Image
A Year in a Small County
Homeland

Awards

2012
Welsh Language Wales Book of the Year
2011
Hay Festival International Fellowship
2010
Creative Wales Award
2010
National Eisteddfod Short Story Prize
2009
Academi Writing Bursary
2009
Allen Raine Short Story Competition
2000
John Morgan Travel Award
1999
Arts of Council of Wales Award

Author statement

I write because I have to: books might bide their time, stalk you for a few years, but eventually they will hunt you down, demanding to be written. Writing in two languages has rewards and challenges. Some words have yet to be invented in Welsh, so you have to make do, or make ones up, giving one a very real sense of adding something new to the literature of my small country.   Growing up, reading books gave a lonely child a ready source of boon companions. I still treasure that sense of companionship, the beautiful idea that someone, a stranger maybe, will spend a few hours in my company through the medium of a book. I always hope I’ll entertain them.