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Author of the Month: September

Owen Sheers

Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. He was educated at King Henry VIII comprehensive, Abergavenny and New College, Oxford. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer’s Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book, was short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2001. His debut prose work, The Dust Diaries, a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, was short-listed for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. His second collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill, won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award. He has also written for radio, TV and newspapers. 

Resistance is Sheers’ first novel and will be translated into eight languages.  It tells a very different, astonishing and compelling study of human nature against the backdrop of an occupied Welsh village during Word War 2. It is the focus of One Book One Nation, a national campaign to have all of the reading groups in Wales reading the same book at the same time. 

Any of these books can be requested from your local library.