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born
January 01, 1974 in Fiji

gender
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Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer's Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book (Seren, 2000) 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 (Faber, 2004), a non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year 2005. In 2004 he was Writer in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Twenty Next Generation Poets'. Owen's second collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill (Seren, 2005) won a 2006 Somerset Mau...more


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Average rating: 3.69 · 561 ratings · 177 reviews · 13 distinct works
Resistance
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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Skirrid Hill
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2006
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The Dust Diaries
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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White Ravens
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009
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The Blue Book
4.64 of 5 stars 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002
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A Poet's Guide to Britain
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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The Gospel of Us
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012
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Resistance
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007
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Unicorns, Almost
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004
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