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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Loffhagen

Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt shortlisted for Dylan Thomas prize

The writer Derek Owusu wearing a black baseball cap.
A work of disarming poignancy … award nominee Derek Owusu. Photograph: Kate Peters

Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.

Harriet Armstrong, Colwill Brown, Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans also made the shortlist for the £20,000 award, which celebrates fiction in any form – including novels, short stories, poetry and drama – by writers aged 39 or under, in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age.

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