Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers is an award-winning author, poet 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. His 2016 film-poem The Green Hollow , about the Aberfan disaster was BAFTA and Grierson nominated and won three BAFTA Cymru awards including Best Writer. Chair of Wales PEN Cymru and...See more

Owen Sheers is an award-winning author, poet 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. His 2016 film-poem The Green Hollow , about the Aberfan disaster was BAFTA and Grierson nominated and won three BAFTA Cymru awards including Best Writer. Chair of Wales PEN Cymru and Professor in Creativity at Swansea University, he lives in Wales. See less