GWOBR
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2024 AWARD C eremony WOBRWYO 2024 seremoni
Dan arweiniad | Hosted by Alan Bilton
NOS IAU 16EG MAI 2024 THURSDAY 16TH MAY 2024 Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University (Singleton Campus) Canolfan Celfyddydau Taliesin, Prifysgol Abertawe (Campws Singleton)
EIN RHESTR FER 2024
A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS Ayòbámi Adébáyò (Canongate Books) ․ ․
Ganwyd Ayòbámi Adébàyò yn Lagos, Nigeria. Enillodd ei nofel gyntaf, Stay With Me , Wobr 9mobile am Lenyddiaeth, cafodd le ar y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Baileys am Ffuglen i Fenywod, Gwobr Wellcome i Lyfrau a Gwobr Llawysgrif Kwani? Fe’i cyfieithwyd i ugain o ieithoedd a dyfarnwyd gwobr y Prix Les Afriques i’r cyfieithiad Ffrangeg. Cafodd Stay With Me le ar restr hir Gwobr Ryngwladol Dylan Thomas a Gwobr Lenyddol Ryngwladol Dulyn, ac roedd yn Llyfr Gorau’r Flwyddyn yn ôl New York Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune ac NPR . Mae Ayòbámi Adébàyò yn rhannu ei hamser rhwng Norwich a Lagos. ․ ․
@ayobamidebayo |
@ayobamidebayo
[Credyd llun: Emmanuel Iduma]
SMALL WORLDS Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking, Penguin Random House)
Mae Caleb Azumah Nelson yn awdur ac yn ffotograffydd Prydeinig-Ghanaidd sy’n byw yn ne-ddwyrain Llundain. Enillodd ei nofel gyntaf, Open Water , Wobr Costa am Nofel Gyntaf a Nofel Gyntaf y Flwyddyn yng Ngwobrau Llyfrau Prydain, a chyrhaeddodd frig rhestr y Times o lyfrau sydd wedi gwerthu’n arbennig o dda. Hefyd, cafodd le ar y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Dylan Thomas, Gwobr Awdur Ifanc y Flwyddyn y Sunday Times , Llyfr y Flwyddyn Waterstones, a chyrhaeddodd restr hir Gwobr Gordon Burn a Gwobr Elliott Desmond. Roedd ei ail nofel, Small Worlds yn llyfr sydd wedi gwerthu’n arbennig o dda yn ôl y Sunday Times a chafodd le ar y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Orwell am Ffuglen Wleidyddol. Fe’i dewiswyd gan Brit Bennett yn anrhydeddai ‘5 under 35’ ar gyfer y Sefydliad Llyfrau Cenedlaethol.
@CalebANelson |
@caleb_anelson
THE GLUTTON A.K. Blakemore (Granta)
Enillodd nofel gyntaf A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches , Wobr Desmond Elliot 2021, cyrhaeddodd restr fer Gwobr Costa am Nofel Gyntaf, ac roedd yn Llyfr y Mis Waterstones. Mae hi’n awdur dau gasgliad llawn o farddoniaeth, Humbert Summer a Fondue, ac fe enillodd Wobr Ledbury Forte 2019 am yr Ail Gasgliad Gorau, ac mae hefyd wedi cyfieithu gwaith y bardd o Sichuan Yu Yoyo. Mae ei barddoniaeth a’i rhyddiaith wedi ymddangos yn y London Review of Books, Poetry, Poetry Review a White Review, ymhlith cyhoeddiadau eraill.
@akblakemore |
@barbiedreamhearse
[Credyd llun: Alice Zoo]
OUR 2024 SHORTLIST
A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS Ayòbámi Adébáyò (Canongate Books) ․ ․
Ayòbámi Adébáyò was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Her debut novel, S tay With Me , won the 9mobile Prize for Literature, was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript Prize. It has been translated into twenty languages and the French translation was awarded the Prix Les Afriques. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, Stay With Me was a New York Times, Guardian, Chicago Tribune and NPR Best Book of the Year. Ayòbámi Adébàyò splits her time between Norwich and Lagos. ․ ․
@ayobamidebayo |
@ayobamidebayo
[Photo credit: Emmanuel Iduma]
SMALL WORLDS Caleb Azumah Nelson (Viking, Penguin Random House)
Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His first novel, Open Water , won the Costa First Novel Award and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was a number-one Times bestseller. It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Waterstones Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, mall Worlds was a Sunday Times Bestseller and was shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. He was selected as a National Book Foundation ‘5 under 35’ honoree by Brit Bennett.
@CalebANelson |
@caleb_anelson
THE GLUTTON A.K. Blakemore (Granta)
A. K. Blakemore’s debut novel, The Manningtree Witches , won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Humbert Summer and Fondue, which was awarded the 2019 Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection, and has also translated the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo. Her poetry and prose has appeared in the London Review of Books, Poetry, the Poetry Review and the White Review, among other publications.
@akblakemore |
@barbiedreamhearse
[Photo credit: Alice Zoo]
EIN RHESTR FER 2024
BRIGHT FEAR Mary Jean Chan (Faber & Faber)
Mary Jean Chan yw awdur Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), a enillodd Wobr Llyfr Costa am Farddoniaeth ac a gyrhaeddodd y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Ryngwladol Dylan Thomas a Gwobr Casgliad Barddoniaeth Cyntaf Canolfan Seamus Heaney. Cyrhaeddodd Bright Fear, sef ail lyfr Chan, restr fer Gwobr Forward 2023 ar gyfer y Casgliad Gorau ac ar hyn o bryd mae ar restr fer Gwobr yr Awduron. Yn 2022, gwnaeth Chan gyd-olygu’r antholeg glodwiw 100 Queer Poems gydag Andrew McMillan. A hithau’n un o feirniaid diweddar Gwobr Booker 2023, mae Chan yn Gymrawd Barddoniaeth Judith E. Wilson ym Mhrifysgol Caergrawnt.
@maryjean_chan |
@maryjeanchan
LOCAL FIRES Joshua Jones (Parthian Books)
Mae Joshua Jones (ei/ef) yn awdur ac yn artist awtistig cwiar o Lanelli, de Cymru. Sefydlodd Dyddiau Du ar y cyd, sef gofod celf a llenyddiaeth NiwroCwiar yng Nghaerdydd. Cyhoeddwyd ei ffuglen a’i farddoniaeth gan Poetry Wales, Broken Sleep Books, Gutter ac eraill. Mae’n un o Egin Awduron Llenyddiaeth Cymru ar gyfer 2023, ac ar hyn o bryd yn gweithio gyda’r British Council i gysylltu awduron cwiar o Gymru a Fietnam. Local Fires yw ei gyhoeddiad ffuglen cyntaf.
@nothumanhead | [Credyd llun: Nik Roche]
@joshuajoneswrites
BIOGRAPHY OF X Catherine Lacey (Granta)
Catherine Lacey yw awdur y nofelau Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers a Pew, a’r casgliad o straeon byrion Certain American States. Mae hi wedi ennill Cymrodoriaeth Guggenheim, Gwobr Whiting, Gwobr Ffuglen Llewod Ifanc Llyfrgell Gyhoeddus Efrog Newydd a chymrodoriaeth Sefydliad y Celfyddydau Efrog Newydd. Mae hi wedi cyrraedd y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobr Dylan Thomas a Gwobr Llyfrau PEN/Jean Stein, ac fe’i henwyd yn un o Nofelwyr Ifanc Americanaidd Gorau Granta. Mae ei thraethodau a’i ffuglen fer wedi ymddangos yn The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer a mannau eraill. Fe’i ganwyd yn Mississippi, mae Catherine ar hyn o bryd yn gymrawd yng Nghanolfan Dorothy B & Lewis Cullman ar gyfer awduron ac ysgolheigion yn Llyfrgell Gyhoeddus Efrog Newydd, ac fel arall mae wedi’i lleoli yn Ninas Mecsico.
@_catherinelacey |
@catherinelacey_ [Credyd llun: Willy Somma]
OUR 2024 SHORTLIST
BRIGHT FEAR Mary Jean Chan (Faber & Faber)
Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Bright Fear, Chan’s second book, was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection and is currently shortlisted for the Writers’ Prize. In 2022, Chan co- edited the acclaimed anthology 100 Queer Poems with Andrew McMillan. A recent judge for the 2023 Booker Prize, Chan is the 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
@maryjean_chan |
@maryjeanchan
LOCAL FIRES Joshua Jones (Parthian Books)
Joshua Jones (he/him) is a queer, autistic writer and artist from Llanelli, South Wales. He co-founded Dyddiau Du, a NeuroQueer art and literature space in Cardiff. His fiction and poetry have been published by Poetry Wales, Broken Sleep Books, Gutter and others. He is a Literature Wales Emerging Writer for 2023, and is currently working with the British Council to connect Welsh and Vietnamese queer writers. Local Fires is his first publication of fiction.
@nothumanhead | [Photo credit: Nik Roche]
@joshuajoneswrites
BIOGRAPHY OF X Catherine Lacey (Granta)
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers and Pew, and the short story collection Certain American States. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer and elsewhere. Born in Mississippi, Catherine is currently a fellow at the Dorothy B & Lewis Cullman Center for writers and scholars at the New York Public Library, and is otherwise based in Mexico City.
@_catherinelacey |
@catherinelacey_
[Photo credit: Willy Somma]
Y BEIRNIAD
Mae Namita Gokhale yn awdur ac yn gyfarwyddwr gŵyl. Mae hi wedi ysgrifennu 23 o lyfrau ffuglen a ffeithiol. Cyhoeddwyd ei nofel gyntaf a ganmolwyd yn fawr, Paro: Dreams of Passion, ym 1984. Mae ei ffuglen ddiweddar yn cynnwys The Blind Matriach a Jaipur Journals. Disgwylir i Never Never Land gael ei gyhoeddi yn 2024. Mae ei gwaith ffeithiol diweddar yn cynnwys Mystics and Sceptics - Searching Himalayan Masters. Mae gwaith Gokhale yn cynnwys sawl genre, gan gynnwys nofelau, straeon byrion, astudiaethau Himalaiaidd, mytholeg, sawl antholeg, llyfrau i ddarllenwyr ifanc a drama yn ddiweddar. Mae hi wedi ennill amrywiaeth o wobrau a dyfarniadau, gan gynnwys Gwobr Sahitya Akademi uchel ei bri (yr Academi Lenyddiaeth Genedlaethol) am ei nofel Things to Leave Behind. Mae hi’n gyd- sefydlwr ac yn gyd-gyfarwyddwr (gyda William Dalrymple) Gŵyl Lenyddiaeth Jaipur fyd-enwog.
@NamitaGokhale_
Mae Tice Cin yn artist rhyngddisgyblaethol, yn olygydd ar ei liwt ei hun ac yn ymgynghorydd diwylliannol o ogledd Llundain a hi yw awdur Keeping the House. Mae hi’n actio ac yn perfformio mewn lleoliadau amrywiol megis Coleg y Celfyddydau Caeredin, The Roundhouse a Chanolfan Barbican, ac wedi cael ei chomisiynu gan sefydliadau, gan gynnwys Cartier, Eglwys Gadeiriol Sant Paul a Montblanc. Cafodd ei henwi’n un o newyddiadurwyr cerddoriaeth gorau 2021 a 2022 gan Complex Magazine ac mae hi wedi ysgrifennu ar gyfer cyhoeddiadau megis DJ Mag a Mixmag. Yn DJ ac yn gynhyrchydd cerddoriaeth, mae hi’n paratoi albwm i gyd-fynd â Keeping the House a fydd yn cynnwys llu o nodweddion dawnus. Enwyd Keeping the House yn un o lyfrau gorau 2021 gan The Guardian ac mae wedi cael sylw yn The Scotsman, New York Times a’r Washington Post. Mae Tice yn enillydd diweddar Gwobr Somerset Maugham Cymdeithas yr Awduron, a chafodd ei chynnwys ar restr fer Llyfr y Flwyddyn (British Book Awards) a Gwobr Desmond Elliott. [Credyd llun: Eric Aydin-Barberini]
@ticecin
Mae Seán Hewitt yn awdur dau gasgliad o farddoniaeth, Tongues of Fire (2020) a Rapture’s Road (2024), a’r cofiant All Down Darkness Wide (2022), oll wedi’u cyhoeddi gan Jonathan Cape. Mae ei waith wedi cyrraedd y rhestr fer ar gyfer sawl gwobr, ac mae wedi ennill Gwobr Laurel a The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Yn Athro Cysylltiol yng Ngholeg y Drindod, Dulyn, mae hefyd yn Gymrawd y Gymdeithas Lenyddiaeth Frenhinol. [Credyd Llun: Stuart Simpson / Penguin Random House]
@seanehewitt
OUR JUDGES
Namita Gokhale is a writer and festival director. She is the author of twenty three works of fiction and non-fiction. Her acclaimed debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published in 1984. Recent fiction includes The Blind Matriarch and Jaipur Journals. Never Never Land is scheduled for publication in 2024. Recent non-fiction includes Mystics and Sceptics- Searching Himalayan Masters. Gokhale’s work spans various genres, including novels, short stories, Himalayan studies, mythology, several anthologies, books for young readers, and a recent play. She is the recipient of various prizes and awards, including the prestigious Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Literature) Award 2021 for her novel Things to Leave Behind. She is the co-founder and co-director (with William Dalrymple) of the famed Jaipur Literature Festival.
@NamitaGokhale_
Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist, freelance editor and cultural consultant from North London and the author of Keeping the House. She has acted and performed at venues such as Edinburgh College of Arts, The Roundhouse and Barbican Centre, and has been commissioned by organisations including Cartier, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Montblanc. She was named one of Complex Magazine’s best music journalists of 2021 and 2022, and has written for places such as DJ Mag and Mixmag. A DJ and music producer, she is preparing an accompanying album for Keeping the House with a host of talented features. Keeping the House has been named one of Guardian’s Best Books of 2021, and has been featured in The Scotsman, New York Times and Washington Post. Tice is a recent recipient of a Society of Authors’ Somerset Maugham Prize, and was shortlisted for both Book of the Year (British Book Awards) and the Desmond Elliott Prize. [Photo credit: Eric Aydin-Barberini]
@ticecin
Seán Hewitt is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire (2020) and Rapture’s Road (2024), and the memoir All Down Darkness Wide (2022), all published by Jonathan Cape. His work has been shortlisted for many awards, and he has won The Laurel Prize and The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. An Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [Photo credit: Stuart Simpson / Penguin Random House]
@seanehewitt
Y BEIRNIAD
Mae Julia Wheeler yn awdur, yn newyddiadurwr ac yn gyfwelydd a fu’n gweithio i’r BBC am bymtheng mlynedd gan gynnwys fel Gohebydd y BBC yn y Gwlff yn yr Emiradau Arabaidd Unedig ac yn ymdrin â Phenrhyn Arabia. Ysgrifennodd Julia ‘Telling Tales: An Oral History of Dubai’. Mae’n cadeirio trafodaethau mewn gwyliau llenyddiaeth a gwyddoniaeth ar draws y DU ac yn rhyngwladol. A hithau’n gadeirydd y beirniaid ar gyfer Llyfr Teithio’r Flwyddyn Stanford 2024, mae Julia hefyd yn un o ymddiriedolwyr Gŵyl Lenyddol Stratford. Astudiodd Hanes Economaidd a Chymdeithasol ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe, cyn ei hastudiaethau ôl-raddedig mewn Newyddiaduraeth Ddarlledu yn City, Prifysgol Llundain.
@JuliaWheeler1
Mae Jon Gower yn gyn-ohebydd y celfyddydau a’r cyfryngau BBC Cymru sydd wedi ysgrifennu mwy na 40 o lyfrau. Mae’r rhain yn cynnwys The Story of Wales, a oedd yn cyd-fynd â chyfres deledu arloesol, llyfr teithio o’r enw An Island Called Smith ac Y Storïwr, a enillodd Wobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn. Ei lyfr diweddaraf yw The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea. Ar hyn o bryd, mae Jon yn ysgrifennu nofel Gymraeg hanesyddol am y fforiwr pegynol Edgar Evans, casgliad o draethodau am fynyddoedd, yn ogystal â chyfrol am Raymond Chester, y chwaraewr pêl-droed Americanaidd, i’w chyhoeddi yn 2024. Mae’n byw yng Nghaerdydd. [Llun Credyd: Marian Delyth]
@JonGower1
EIN GWAHODDWR
Alan Bilton yw awdur tair nofel, The End of The Yellow House (Watermark 2020), The Known and Unknown Sea (Cillian, 2014), a The Sleepwalkers’ Ball (Alcemi, 2009), a ddisgrifiwyd gan un beirniad fel ‘Franz Kafka yn cwrdd â Mary Poppins’. Mae ef hefyd yn awdur casgliad o straeon byrion swrrealaidd, Anywhere Out of the World (Cillian, 2016) yn ogystal â llyfrau ar ffilmiau comedi mud, ffuglen gyfoes, a’r 1920au. Bu’n Ysgrifennwr ar Waith Gwyl y Gelli yn 2016 a 2017 ac mae’n addysgu ysgrifennu creadigol, llenyddiaeth, a ffilm ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe.
OUR JUDGES
Julia Wheeler is a writer, journalist and interviewer who worked for the BBC for fifteen years including as the BBC’S Gulf Correspondent based in the UAE and covering the Arabian Peninsula, Julia wrote Telling Tales: An Oral History of Dubai: She chairs discussions at literature and science Festivals across the UK and internationally. Chair of judges for the 2024 Stanfords Travel Book of the Year, Julia is also a trustee of the Stratford Literary Festival. She read Economic and Social History at Swansea University, before postgraduate study in Broadcast Journalism at City, University of London.
@JuliaWheeler1
Jon Gower is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent who has over 40 books to his nome. These include The Story of Wales, which accompanied a landmark TV series, the travelogue An Iland Colled Seith and Y Storir which won the Woles Book of the Yoor. His latest book is The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea. Jon is currently writing a Welsh language historicol novel obout the polar explorer Edgor Evans, a collection of essays obout mountoins as well as a volume about the American footballer Raymond Chester, due out in 2024. He lives in Cardiff. [Photo Credit: Marian Delyth]
@JonGower1
OUR HOST
Alan Bilton is the author of three novels, The End of The Yellow House (Watermark 2020), The Known and Unknown Sea (Cillian, 2014), and The Sleepwalkers’ Ball (Alcemi, 2009), described by one critic as ‘Franz Kafka meets Mary Poppins’. He is also the author of a collection of surrealist short stories, Anywhere Out of the World (Cillian, 2016) as well as books on silent film comedy, contemporary fiction, and the 1920s. He was a Hay Festival Writer at Work in 2016 and 2017 and teaches creative writing, literature and film at Swansea University.
GYDA CHEFNOGAETH | SUPPORTED BY
Noddwyr Anrhydeddus | Patrons
Michael Sheen
Jeff Towns
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Diolch arbennig i: Ein panel beirniadu 2024; ein hawduron ar y rhestr fer, eu cyhoeddwyr, golygyddion a chyhoeddwyr; Sylfaenydd a Llywydd Peter Stead; Noddwyr Jeff Towns a Michael Sheen; Ymddiriedolaeth Dylan Thomas; interniaid modiwl Gwobr Dylan Thomas; holl ffrindiau a phartneriaid Gwobr Dylan Thomas a DylanED. Special thanks to: Our 2024 judging panel; our shortlisted writers, their publishers, editors and publicists; Founder and President Peter Stead; Patrons Jeff Towns and Michael Sheen; the Dylan Thomas Trust; Dylan Thomas Prize module interns; all friends and partners of the Dylan Thomas Prize and DylanED.
Mae ein partneriaeth wedi tyfu o rannu’r un amcanion: rydym yn ceisio canfod a meithrin dawn, dathlu creadigrwydd, a chyflawni rhagoriaeth ryngwladol. Rydym am dynnu’r pethau gorau am Abertawe at sylw’r byd, a dod ag artistiaid, ysgolheigion, a myfyrwyr o ledled y byd i Abertawe. Mae Prifysgol Abertawe, yn brifysgol ymchwil dwys, yn ffynnu ar greadigrwydd myfyrwyr a staff ar draws ei disgyblaethau aml. Rydym yn gobeithio y byddwch chi, yn ystod y blynyddoedd i ddod, yn ymuno â ni, a Gwobr Dylan Thomas, i gymeradwyo a chynorthwyo’r goreuon oll o blith ein hawduron ifainc. Our partnership grows from common goals: we aim to identify and nurture talent, to celebrate creativity, and to achieve international excellence. We want to take the best of Swansea to the world and bring artists, scholars and students from around the globe to South Wales. As an ambitious, research intensive university, Swansea thrives on the creativity of students and staff across our many disciplines. We hope that over the years to come you will join us and the Dylan Thomas Prize in applauding and supporting the very best young writers.
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