Book of the Year (for The Dust Diaries) 2006: Somerset Maugham Award (for Skirrid Hill) 2008: Hospital Club Creative Award (for Resistance) 2008: short-listed for Writers' Guild Best Book Award for Resistance 2012: Winner Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award (for The Two Worlds of Charlie F) 2013: Hay Medal for Poetry 2014: Wales Book of the Year (for Pink Mist) 2015: Nominated for a BAFTA Cymru for Best Presenter (for A Poet's Guide to Dylan Kyte, BBC 4) 2015: short-listed for Prix Femina Etranger for French translation of I Saw A Man 2018: Wilfred Owen Poetry Award References External links Owen Sheers' Website 1974 births Living people 20th-century British male writers 20th-century Welsh poets 21st-century British male writers 21st-century Welsh poets Alumni of New College, Oxford Alumni of the University of East Anglia Anglo-Welsh poets Fijian emigrants to Wales Fijian people of Welsh descent People from Abergavenny People from Suva Welsh dramatists and playwrights Welsh novelists Welsh rugby union players