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Sie haben nach Sheers, Owen gesucht

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 Maugham Award and is a WJEC and AQA A level set text. _Unicorns, Almost_ his one man play based on the life and poetry of the WWII poet Keith Douglas was developed by Old Vic, New Voices. Owen's first novel, _Resistance_ , has been translated into eight languages. His recent collaboration with composer Rachel Portman, _The Water Diviner's Tale_ , an oratorio for children, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2007. His essay _Bomb Gone_ , about Britain's Christmas Island thermonuclear tests, appears in _Granta 101_ . Owen is currently a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.