Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers is a poet, novelist and playwright. Twice winner of the Wales Book of the Year, his books of poetry include Skirrid Hill , winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and the verse drama Pink Mist , winner of the Hay Festival Poetry Medal. In 2018 he was awarded the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Owen's theatrical work includes The Two Worlds of Charlie F. , winner of the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Mametz , and National Theatre Wales's seventy-two hour The Passion ....See more
Owen Sheers is a poet, novelist and playwright. Twice winner of the Wales Book of the Year, his books of poetry include Skirrid Hill , winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, and the verse drama Pink Mist , winner of the Hay Festival Poetry Medal. In 2018 he was awarded the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. Owen's theatrical work includes The Two Worlds of Charlie F. , winner of the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, Mametz , and National Theatre Wales's seventy-two hour The Passion . Chair of Wales PEN Cymru and Professor in Creativity at Swansea University, he lives in the Black Mountains of Wales with his wife and two daughters. See less
