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Owen Sheers


Born
in Fiji
January 01, 1974

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Genre
Poetry, Fiction, Contemporary


OWEN SHEERS is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean nonfiction narrative, won the Wales Book of the Year Award. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry and Wales Book of the Year Award for Pink Mist, and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F. His most recent novel is I Saw a Man, which was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger. He lives in Wales with his wife and daughter. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 8,709 ratings · 1,230 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
I Saw a Man
3.44 avg rating — 4,323 ratings — published 2014 — 39 editions
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Resistance
3.60 avg rating — 2,042 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
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Skirrid Hill
3.40 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Pink Mist
4.22 avg rating — 438 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions
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White Ravens (New Stories f...
3.94 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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The Dust Diaries
3.83 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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The Green Hollow
4.59 avg rating — 91 ratings — 4 editions
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A Poet's Guide to Britain
3.99 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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The Blue Book
3.83 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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To Provide All People: A Po...
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“Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.”
― Owen Sheers, Resistance
tags: honesty, life, truth
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“There are narrow windows for certain beginnings. Multiple strands of personal histories, psychologies, emotions that intersect once only, and then never again.”
― Owen Sheers, I Saw A Man
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“Just like the farmers who once came to scoop
handfuls of soil from her holy scar,

so I am still drawn to her back for the answers
to every question I have never known.”
― Owen Sheers, Skirrid Hill
tags: questions, religion, skirrid-fawr, skirrid-hill, wales, welsh-mythology
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