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Celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies hopes the winner of the world's largest literary award will use the pounds 60,000 prize money to fund the writing of a new masterpiece. Davies, who adapted Pride and Prejudice and Tipping The Velvet for TV, is chairman of the judging panel for the Dylan Thomas Prize, which offers more money than any other similar award.
He was in Swansea yesterday for the launch of the long list of 14 authors who are in the running for the first international award, which is open to published English-language writers under 30.See the full content of this document
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Swansea Turns a Fresh, Young Page in Major Literary Prizes
The list is made up of 12 novelists, one poet and Rhondda writer Rachel Trezise, who has been nominated for her collection of short stories, Fresh Apples.
Poet Nick Laird has double the chance of winning. The husband of acclaimed writer Zadie Smith is shortlisted for his poetry colle...See the full content of this document
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