The 2009 Wales Book of the Year awards have been given to Deborah Kay Davies for Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful in the English language category and William Owen Roberts for Petrograd in the Welsh language category.
Grace, Tamar, and Laszlo the Beautiful is Davies's debut novel, a collection of unified short stories about two wild sisters coming of age in the 1970's. Davies is also a published poet.
Petrograd is a novel about Russians in exile after the 1917 revolution. Roberts previously won the award in 1988 for Y Pla (translated to English as Pestilence, his only work to appear in English) and was short-listed again in 2002.
17 June 2009
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