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Digital archive footage will be seen for the first time in commemoration of 80 years since the Blitz.
The three-night raid on Swansea in 1941 killed 230 people, injured almost 400 and left the city centre in ruins.
Among the commemorations, an index of Swansea civilians who died in World War Two, called Civilian War Dead, will be digitised for the first time.
Artists, filmmakers and historians have also helped prepare events for the anniversary, which starts on Friday.
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.
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A Promised Land sold 66,531 copies in the week to 19 December, not enough for the former US president to match his wife Michelle Obama’s feat two years ago, when she took the UK’s Christmas crown. The last adult novel to be Christmas No 1 was Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009.
Osman also beat David Walliams, who has been the No 1 author for three of the last four Christmases. His latest children’s novel, Code Name Bananas, which is set during the second world war, came in third having sold 55,129 copies, while Pinch of Nom food bloggers Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone’s third cookbook, Quick and Easy, came in fourth.