Alys Conran

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Alys Conran
OccupationWriter
NationalityWelsh
GenreFiction
Notable works
  • Pigeon (2016)
Notable awards
Website
www.alysconran.com

Alys Conran is a Welsh writer. Her debut novel Pigeon won the Wales Book of the Year in 2017. [1]

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Early life

Alys Conran was born in north-west Wales, and is the daughter of the poet and translator Tony Conran. [2] She studied literature in Edinburgh before completing an MA in creative writing at Manchester. [3]

Career

Conran's first novel Pigeon was published by Parthian Books in 2016. A Welsh language adaptation by Siân Northey was published at the same time as the English original, making it the first fiction novel to be simultaneously published in English and Welsh. [3] At the 2017 Wales Book of the Year Awards, the English-language version of Pigeon won the overall prize for Wales Book of the Year, as well as the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award. [4] It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [5] and longlisted for the Author's Choice First Novel Award.

In 2018, Conran's second novel Dignity was picked up by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [6] and published in April 2019. [7] Dignity was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2020. [8]

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References

  1. "Wales Book of the Year winner revealed". 13 November 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  2. "From the Margins : Reviews : Alys Conran : Pigeon". www.fromthemargins.co.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Alys Conran". www.edbookfest.co.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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  5. "Dylan Thomas prize shortlist announced". 28 March 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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  8. "Literature Wales Announces the Wales Book of the Year Shortlist 2020". Literature Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2021.