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Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book (Seren) was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001. His second collection Skirrid Hill (Seren) won a Somerset Maugham Award. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries (Faber) was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and won the Wales Book of the Year 2005. Owen's first novel, Resistance (Faber) won a 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award was shortlisted for the Writers Guild Best Book Award, and is translated into nine languages. Owen's recent collaboration with composer Rachel Portman, The Water Diviner's Tale, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2007.Owen was a 2007 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the NewYork Public Library.

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Resistance by Owen Sheers

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Resistance" "is a beautifully written and powerful story set during an imagined occupation of Britain by Nazi Germany in World War II. In a remote and rugged Welsh valley in 1944, in the wake of a German invasion, all the men have disappeared overnight, apparently to join the underground resistance. Their abandoned...

Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers

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White Ravens by Owen Sheers

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New Stories from the Mabinogion is an exciting series of contemporary novels by leading authors, reworking ancient Celtic myth cycles.The first two stories are published in October 2009. Authors so far commissioned are Owen Sheers, Niall Griffiths, Russell Celyn Jones and Gwyneth Lewis. The eleven stories in the...