Dylan Thomas Prize
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The Dylan Thomas Prize is a new biennial literary prize, named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, "awarded to the best published writer in English under the age of 30 from anywhere in the world". The prize is unique in its broad range of eligible matieral, covering novels, short story collections, poetry collections and plays. The winner of the prize receives £60,000. The prize was announced in 2004 and the inaugural winner will be announced in October 2006.
[edit] 2006 Shortlist
- Lucy Caldwell - Where They Were Missed
- Ian Holding - Unfeeling
- Nick Laird - Utterly Monkey and To a Fault (Two entries)
- James Scudamore - The Amnesia Clinic
- Rachel Trezise - Fresh Apples
- Liza Ward - Outside Valentine
[edit] 2006 Longlist
- Susan Barker - Sayonara Bar
- Kira Cochrane - Escape Routes for Beginners
- Rodge Glass - No fireworks
- Joseph Goebel - Torture The Artist
- Emily Maguire - Taming the Beast
- Matthew David Scott - Playing Mercy
- Talitha Stevenson - Exposure
