The Dylan Thomas Prize

Someone pointed out this prize list so I have posted it for general comments. Anyone read any of these??

Ross Raisin - God's Own Country
Joe Dunthorne - Submarine
Ceridwen Dovey - Blood Kin
Susan Barker - The Orientalist and the Ghost
Priya Basil - Ishq and Mushq
Edward Hogan - Blackmoor
Ben Dolnick - Zoology
Susan Fletcher - Oystercatchers
Adam Green - Satsuma Sun Mover
Kei Miller - There is an Anger that Moves
Caroline Bird - Trouble Came to the Turnip
Zoe Brigley - The Secret
Porochista Khakpour- Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Nan Le - The Boat
Karen Russell - St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Dinaw Mengestu - Children of the Revolution

Sadly, I must be more out of touch with contemporary poetry than I thought; not a single poet's name is familiar.

It's for writers under 30 in general, rather than poets: From http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/:

The 2008 Prize is open to young writers of any nationality, from anywhere in the world, writing in English. Writers must be under 30 years of age on 3rd April 2007. The following Genres are all eligible for entry: novels, collections of short stories, poetry, screenplays, radio and theatre plays.

To be eligible a Literary Work must have been commercially published, for the first time in the English Language between 27th April 2006 and 30th April 2008. For TV writing and theatrical films the script or screenplay must have been commissioned between 27th April 2006 and 30th April 2008

Thanks, Tim. I was too lazy to read the requirements.

I have the book The Road which is a novel and I have not yet read. The others are not familiar to me so a great list to explore. It is good to see a prize for younger writers.

Just to define what is what. This is the genres:

Novels
1. God’s Own Country / Ross Raisin
2. Submarine / Joe Dunthorne
3. Blood Kin / Ceridwen Dovey
4. The Orientalist and the Ghost / Susan Barker
5. Ishq and Mushq / Priya Basil
6. Blackmoor / Edward Hogan
7. Zoology / Ben Dolnick
8. Oystercatchers / Susan Fletcher
9. Satsuma Sun Mover / Adam Green

Stories
10. Sons and Other Flammable Objects / Porohistra Khakpour
11. The Boat / Nam Le
12. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves / Karen Russell
13. Children of the Revolution / Dinaw Mengestu

Poetry
14. There is an Anger that Moves / Kei Miller
15. Trouble Came to the Turnip / Caroline Bird
16. The Secret / Zoë Brigley

Is not Susan Fletcher the author of Eve Green? Is it the same person?

Yes Avaland....

2010 Longlist:

The shortlist will be announced in September.

The Longlist:

Ex Nihilo by Adebe D.A. (Frontenac House)

Watering Can by Caroline Bird (Carcanet)

Clamor by Elyse Fenton (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

One Eye’d Leigh by Katherine Kilalea (Carcanet)

Shore Ordered Ocean by Dora Malech (The Waywiser Press)

Cailleach by Leanna O’Sullivan (Bloodaxe Books)

American Volunteers by Johnny Meyer (City on a Hill Productions)

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Portobello Books)

In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw (John Murray Publishers)

The Road to the Sea by Ciara Hegarty (Macmillan New Writing)

And This is True by Emilie Mackie (Sceptre)

Family Planning by Karan Mahajan (Harper Perennial)

Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (Harper Collins)

The Still Point by Amy Sackville (Portobello Books)

The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw (Atlantic Books)

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (Windmill Books (Random House)

edit: touchstones

The shortlist for this year's Dylan Thomas Prize has been annnounced:

Caroline Bird, 23, for (this book of short stories is available in the UK and US, but I couldn't find it on LT)

Elyse Fenton, 29, for Clamor (another book I couldn't find on LT, a collection of poetry published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center this spring)

Eleanor Catton, 24, for The Rehearsal (I have this book, as it was longlisted for this year's Orange Prize, and I'll read it soon; FlossieT interviewed the author in an issue of Belletrista earlier this year)

Emilie Mackie, 27, for And This is True

Karan Mahajan, 26, for Family Planning

Nadifa Mohamed, 28, for Black Mamba Boy (shortlisted for this year's Orange Prize, a book that I read and enjoyed earlier this year)

2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlist Announced

Women dominate Dylan Thomas prize shortlist

The shortlist for this year's prize, which will now be awarded annually, has been announced:

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

The winner will be announced in Swansea, South Wales on November 9.

Press release: http://www.dylanthomasprize.com/news/documents/nationalshortlist2011final.pdf

BTW, Elyse Fenton was awarded the 2010 prize, for her poetry collection Clamor.

Lucy Caldwell is the winner of the 2011 Dylan Thomas Prize, for her novel The Meeting Point.

Press release: http://www.thedylanthomasprize.com/news/documents/LucyCaldwellWINNERrelease_000....

The winner for this year's prize, which will now be awarded annually, has been announced:

Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements

Shortlist

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

American short story writer Claire Vaye Watkins has been named the 2013 winner of the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for new writers. Judges said she was an "exceptional" writer and described her collection Battleborn as "infectious".


The Shortlist was
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
Prajwal Parajuly, The Gurkha's Daughter

The 2014 shortlist is:

Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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 (this is a Play)

Naomi Wood, Mrs Hemingway

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is the winner of this year's Dylan Thomas Prize.

Joshua Ferris novel wins International Dylan Thomas prize