# Dylan Thomas Prize

The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. The prize, named in honour of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a remuneration of £30,000 (~$46,000). It is open to published writers in the English language under the age of forty. The prize was originally awarded biennially but became an annual award in 2010. Entries for the prize are submitted by the publisher, editor, or agent; for theatre plays and screenplays, by the producer.
A Dylan Thomas literary prize was first awarded during the 1980s, known as the Dylan Thomas Award, following the campaign to have a plaque in the poet's memory placed in Westminster Abbey. Surplus income from a fund-raising concert sponsored by the television company HTV were donated to allow a prize of £1,000 to be awarded annually. After several years, the prize was discontinued for lack of finance. It was revived, in a different form, in 2004, sponsored by Electronic Data Systems, at that time one of Swansea's largest employers.
The prize honours its shortlisted finalists and annual winner for published work in the broad range of literary forms in which Dylan Thomas excelled, including poetry, prose, fictional drama, short story collections, novels, novellas, stage plays and screenplays. “We want the world to be aware of the Welsh interest in promoting new writing. Our Prize provides an inspiration for a whole new generation of writers throughout the English-speaking world,” said Peter Stead, Chair of The Dylan Thomas Prize.

## Recipients

Dylan Thomas Prize recipients :
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2006 | Rachel Trezise | Fresh Apples | | Winner |
| 2006 | Liza Ward | Outside Valentine | | Shortlist |
| 2006 | James Scudamore | The Amnesia Clinic | | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Ian Holding | Unfeeling | | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Nick Laird | Utterly Monkey and To a Fault | | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Lucy Caldwell | Where They Were Missed | | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Nam Le | The Boat | | Winner |
| 2008 | Edward Hogan | Blackmoor | | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Ceridwen Dovey | Blood Kin | | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Dinaw Mengestu | Children of the Revolution | | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Ross Raisin | God's Own Country | | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Caroline Bird | Trouble Came to the Turnip | | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Elyse Fenton | Clamor | | Winner |
| 2010 | Emily Mackie | And This Is True | | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Nadifa Mohamed | Black Mamba Boy | | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Karan Mahajan | Family Planning | | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Eleanor Catton | The Rehearsal | | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Caroline Bird | Watering Can | | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Lucy Caldwell | The Meeting Point | | Winner |
| 2011 | Jacob McArthur Mooney | Folk | | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Annabel Pitcher | My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece | | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Benjamin Hale | The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore | | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Téa Obreht | The Tiger's Wife | | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Maggie Shipstead | Seating Arrangements | | Winner |
| 2012 | D.W. Wilson | Once You Break A Knuckle | | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Tom Benn | The Doll Princess | | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Chibundu Onuzo | The Spider King's Daughter | | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Andrea Eames | The White Shadow | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Claire Vaye Watkins | Battleborn | | Winner |
| 2013 | Majok Tulba | Beneath the Darkening Sky | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Marli Roode | Call It Dog | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Prajwal Parajuly | Land Where I Flee | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | James Brookes | Sins of the Leopard | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Tim Leach | The Last King of Lydia | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Jemma L. King | The Shape of a Forest | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | | Winner |
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Owen Sheers | Mametz | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Naomi Wood | Mrs. Hemingway | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Kseniya Melnik | Snow in May | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Kei Miller | The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Max Porter | Grief Is the Thing with Feathers | | Winner |
| 2016 | Frances Leviston | Disinformation | | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Andrew McMillan | Physical | | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Claire-Louise Bennett | Pond | | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Tania James | The Tusk that did the Damage | | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Fiona McFarlane | The High Places | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Winner |
| 2017 | Anuk Arudpragasam | The Story of a Brief Marriage | Granta| | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Alys Conran | Pigeon | Parthian Books | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Luke Kennard | Cain | Penned in the Margins | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Sarah Perry | The Essex Serpent | Serpent's Tail | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Callan Wink | Dog Run Moon: Stories | Granta | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Safiya Sinclair | Cannibal | University of Nebraska Press | Longlist |
| 2017 | Jonathan Safran Foer | Here I Am | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | Longlist |
| 2017 | Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing | Alfred A. Knopf | Longlist |
| 2017 | Benjamin Hale | The Fat Artist and Other Stories | Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Longlist |
| 2017 | Hannah Kohler | The Outside Lands | Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Longlist |
| 2017 | Helen Oyeyemi | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours | Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Longlist |
| 2018 | Kayo Chingonyi | Kumukanda | Chatto & Windus | Winner |
| 2018 | Sally Rooney | Conversations with Friends | Faber & Faber | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Gwendoline Riley | First Love | Granta | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Emily Ruskovich | Idaho | Vintage Books | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Gabriel Tallent | My Absolute Darling | Fourth Estate / HarperCollins | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad and Furious City | Tinder Press / Headline Publishing Group | Winner |
| 2019 | Zoe Gilbert | Folk | Bloomsbury Publishing | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Friday Black | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US); Riverrun (UK) | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Novuyo Rosa Tshuma | House of Stone | Atlantic Books | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Sarah Perry | Melmoth | Serpent's Tail | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Louisa Hall | Trinity | Ecco Press | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jenny Xie | Eye Level | Graywolf Press | Longlist |
| 2019 | Michael Donkor | Hold | Fourth Estate / HarperCollins | Longlist |
| 2019 | Clare Fisher | How the Light Gets In | Influx Press | Longlist |
| 2019 | Sally Rooney | Normal People | Faber & Faber | Longlist |
| 2019 | Emma Glass | Peach | Bloomsbury Publishing | Longlist |
| 2019 | Richard Scott | Soho | Faber & Faber | Longlist |
| 2020 | Bryan Washington | Lot | Atlantic Books | Winner |
| 2020 | Mary Jean Chan | Flèche | Faber & Faber | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Stephen Sexton | If All the World and Love Were Young | Penguin Random House | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Téa Obreht | Inland | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Ocean Vuong | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Jonathan Cape / Vintage Books | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jay Bernard | Surge | Chatto & Windus | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Helen Mort | Black Car Burning | Chatto & Windus | Longlist |
| 2020 | Meena Kandasamy | Exquisite Cadavers | Atlantic Books | Longlist |
| 2020 | Yara Rodrigues Fowler | Stubborn Archivist | Fleet Publishing / Little, Brown and Company | Longlist |
| 2020 | Madhuri Vijay | The Far Field | Atlantic Books | Longlist |
| 2020 | Kirsty Logan | Things We Say in the Dark | Harvill Secker / Vintage Books | Longlist |
| 2020 | Yelena Moskovich | Virtuoso | Serpent's Tail | Longlist |
| 2021 | Raven Leilani | Luster | Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Winner |
| 2021 | Dima Alzayat | Alligator and Other Stories | Picador / Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Rye Curtis | Kingdomtide | Fourth Estate / HarperCollins | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Kate Elizabeth Russell | My Dark Vanessa | Fourth Estate / HarperCollins | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Catherine Lacey | Pew | Granta | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Akwaeke Emezi | The Death of Vivek Oji | Faber & Faber | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Romalyn Ante | Antiemetic for Homesickness | Chatto & Windus | Longlist |
| 2021 | Naoise Dolan | Exciting Times | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Longlist |
| 2021 | Frances Cha | If I Had Your Face | Viking / Penguin Random House | Longlist |
| 2021 | Will Harris | Rendang | Granta | Longlist |
| 2021 | Caoilinn Hughes | The Wild Laughter | Oneworld Publications | Longlist |
| 2021 | Gabriel Krauze | Who They Was | Fourth Estate / HarperCollins | Longlist |
| 2022 | Patricia Lockwood (Collected by Caspian Dennis) | No One Is Talking About This | Bloomsbury Publishing | Winner |
| 2022 | Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water | Viking Press | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Nathan Harris | The Sweetness of Water | Tinder Press / Headline Publishing Group | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Brandon Taylor | Filthy Animals | Daunt Books Publishing | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe | Auguries of a Minor God | Faber & Faber | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Anuk Arudpragasam | A Passage North | Granta | Longlist |
| 2022 | Megan Nolan | Acts of Desperation | Jonathan Cape | Longlist |
| 2022 | Fiona Mozley | Hot Stew | John Murray Press | Longlist |
| 2022 | Tice Cin | Keeping the House | And Other Stories | Longlist |
| 2022 | Dantiel W. Moniz | Milk Blood Heat | Atlantic Books | Longlist |
| 2022 | Helen Oyeyemi | Peaces | Faber & Faber | Longlist |
| 2022 | Desiree Bailey | What Noise Against the Cane | Yale University Press | Longlist |
| 2023 | Arinze Ifeakandu | God's Children Are Little Broken Things | | Winner |
| 2023 | Warsan Shire | Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Sheena Patel | I'm a Fan | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Saba Sams | Send Nudes | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Sara Baume | Seven Steeples | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Caleb Azumah Nelson | Small Worlds | | Winner |
| 2024 | Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ | A Spell of Good Things | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | A. K. Blakemore | The Glutton | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Mary Jean Chan | Bright Fear | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Joshua Jones | Local Fires | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Catherine Lacey | Biography of X | | Shortlist |