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The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. The prize, named in honour of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a remuneration of £30,000 (~$46,000). It is open to published writers in the English language under the age of forty. The prize was originally awarded bi-annually, but became an annual award in 2010. Entries for the prize are submitted by the publisher, editor, or agent; for theatre plays and screenplays, by the producer.

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A Dylan Thomas literary prize was first awarded during the 1980s, known as the Dylan Thomas Award, following the campaign to have a plaque in the poet's memory placed in Westminster Abbey. Surplus income from a fund-raising concert sponsored by the television company HTV were donated to allow a prize of £1000 to be awarded annually. After several years, the prize was discontinued for lack of finance. It was revived, in a different form, in 2004, sponsored by Electronic Data Systems, at that time one of Swansea's largest employers.

The Prize honours its shortlist finalists and annual winner for published work in the broad range of literary forms in which Dylan Thomas excelled, including poetry, prose, fictional drama, short story collections, novels, novellas, stage plays and screenplays. “We want the world to be aware of the Welsh interest in promoting new writing. Our Prize provides an inspiration for a whole new generation of writers throughout the English-speaking world,” said Peter Stead, Chair of The Dylan Thomas Prize.

2017

Longlist

  • Anuk Arudpragasm - The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta)
  • Alys Conran - Pigeon (Parthian)
  • Jonathan Safran Foer - Here I Am (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing (Alfred A Knopf)
  • Benjamin Hale - The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Picador)
  • Luke Kennard - Cain (Penned in the Margins)
  • Hannah Kohler - The Outside Lands (Picador)
  • Fiona McFarlane - The High Places (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Helen Oyeyemi - What is Not Yours is Not Yours (Picador)
  • Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent (Serpent's Tail)
  • Safiya Sinclair - Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press)
  • Callan Wink - Dog Run Moon: Stories (Granta)
  • 2016

    Winner

  • Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers
  • Shortlist

  • Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
  • Tania James, The Tusk that did the Damage
  • Frances Leviston, Disinformation
  • Andrew McMillan, Physical
  • Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
  • 2014

    Winner

  • Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
  • Shortlist

  • Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
  • Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
  • Kseniya Melnik, Snow in May
  • Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
  • Owen Sheers, Mametz
  • Naomi Wood, Mrs.Hemingway
  • 2013

    Winner

  • Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn
  • Shortlist

  • Tim Leach, The Last King Of Lydia
  • Marli Roode, Call It Dog
  • Majok Tulba, Beneath The Darkening Sky
  • James Brookes, Sins Of The Leopard
  • Jemma L King, The Shape Of A Forest
  • Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn
  • Prajwal Parajuly, The Gurkha's Daughter
  • 2012

    Winner

  • Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements
  • Shortlist

  • Tom Benn, The Doll Princess
  • Andrea Eames, The White Shadow
  • Chibundu Onuzo, The Spider King’s Daughter
  • Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements
  • D.W. Wilson, Once You Break A Knuckle
  • 2011

    Winner

  • Lucy Caldwell, The Meeting Point
  • Shortlist

  • Lucy Caldwell, The Meeting Point
  • Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
  • Jacob McArthur Mooney, Folk
  • Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife
  • Annabel Pitcher, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
  • 2010

    Winner

  • Elyse Fenton, Clamor
  • Shortlist

  • Caroline Bird, Watering Can
  • Elyse Fenton, Clamor
  • Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal
  • Karan Mahajan, Family Planning
  • Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy
  • Emily Mackie, And this is true
  • 2008

    Winner

  • Nam Le, The Boat
  • Shortlist

  • Caroline Bird, Trouble Came to the Turnip
  • Ross Raisin, God’s Own Country
  • Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin
  • Edward Hogan, Blackmoor
  • Nam Le, The Boat
  • Dinaw Mengestu, Children of the Revolution
  • 2006

    Winner

  • Rachel Trezise, Fresh Apples
  • Shortlist

  • Lucy Caldwell, Where They Were Missed
  • Ian Holding, Unfeeling
  • Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey and To a Fault (Two entries)
  • James Scudamore, The Amnesia Clinic
  • Rachel Trezise, Fresh Apples
  • Liza Ward, Outside Valentine
  • References

    Dylan Thomas Prize Wikipedia


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