Crown - Penri Roberts National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Elfyn Pritchard Wales Book of the Year: English language: Stephen Knight - Mr Schnitzel Welsh language: Owen Martell - Cadw dy ffydd, brawd Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - New books English language Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists Carole Seymour-Jones - Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot Welsh language Roger Boore and Rhian Nest James - Hoff Hwiangerddi Gwynfor Evans - Cymru o Hud Tudur Dylan Jones - Adenydd Angharad Tomos - Cnonyn Aflonydd Music Feeder - Echo Park (album) Hilary Tann - The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Catatonia - Paper Scissors Stone (album) Goldie Lookin' Chain - Don't Blame the Chain (album) Melys - Chinese Whispers (album) Terris - "Fabricated Lunacy" (single) and Learning to Let Go (debut album) Film John Rhys-Davies makes his first appearance as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Sara Sugarman writes and directs Very Annie Mary, featuring Welsh stars such as Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Griffith, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Madoc. Rhys Ifans co-stars in The Shipping News. A Bollywood film, Mein Dil Tujhko Diya (I Gave You my Heart), is shot in Aberystwyth and the Elan Valley. In Gosford Park, Jeremy Northam plays a fictionalised version of Ivor Novello. Several of Novello's songs feature in the film's soundtrack. Nia Roberts stars in A Day Out. Welsh-language films Against the Dying of the Light Y Delyn Broadcasting Welsh-language television Y Stafell Ddirgel (drama serial) English-language television The Bench Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Joe Calzaghe Football - Liverpool F.C. win the FA Cup the first time it is played in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. Births 23 March - Dream Alliance, racehorse bred near Blackwood Deaths 11 January - Lorna Sage, critic, 57 (emphysema) 20 January - Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68 18 February - Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92 22 February - Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84 11 April - Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79 16 April - Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89 26 April - Dafydd Rowlands,