Among publishers, HarperCollins’ 4th Estate leads in this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize longlist, with three of the 12 titles announced today.
Twelve Titles Include Poetry, Novels, and Stories
Today (January 21), Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize has announced its 2021 longlist of 12 titles. They include nine novels, two poetry collections, and one short story collection.
And reading that, you’ll immediately recall that one of the distinctions of this awards program is that it’s open to multiple formats.
It also is the prize that honors writers under 39 years of age because that’s the age at which the award program’s eponymous poet died.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury)
The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria.
The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking)
Last year the
Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel.
Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N)
A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate.
Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking)