Owen Sheers
Author · 13 books
OWEN SHEERS is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean nonfiction narrative, won the Wales Book of the Year Award. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry and Wales Book of the Year Award for Pink Mist, and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F. His most recent novel is I Saw a Man, which was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. He lives in Wales with his wife and daughter. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University.
Series
Books
The Dust Diaries
2004
The Green Hollow
2018
Letters to the Future
On Equality and Gender
2018
A Poet's Guide To Britain
2009
Skirrid Hill
2006
Resistance
2007
Unicorns, almost
2011
Pink Mist
2013
The Gospel of Us
2012
I Saw a Man
2014
To Provide All People
A Poem in the Voice of the NHS
2018
White Ravens
2009
The Blue Book
2002
