As the announcement of the winner comes ever closer, the International Dylan Thomas Prize and Swansea University will be publishing a series of podcast interviews with the shortlisted authors of this year’s prize. Episode five is a conversation with Sarah Perry.
The shortlisted candidate for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is interviewed by English Literature Undergraduate students Hannah Wadham, Molly Holborn and Angharad Stephens. These students have studied Perry’s shortlisted novel Melmoth as part of Swansea University’s exciting new module based on the literary prize.
Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has been the writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and the UNESCO World City of Literature, Prague. She is the author of ‘ After Me Comes the Flood,’ winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year Award, and ‘The Essex Serpent,’ a number one bestseller, which won the Waterstones Book of the Year and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. She lives in Norwich.
Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has been the writer in residence at Gladstone’s Library and the UNESCO World City of Literature, Prague. She is the author of After Me Comes the Flood, winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year Award, and The Essex Serpent, a number one bestseller, which won the Waterstones Book of the Year and the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. She lives in Norwich.
Launched in 2006, the annual Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers, aimed at encouraging raw creative talent worldwide. It celebrates and nurtures international literary excellence.
The £30,000 Prize is awarded to the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under.
Dylan Thomas, the quintessential adolescent writer, was ideally suited to serve as an inspiration to young writers everywhere. The freshness and immediacy of his writing were qualities that he never lost. The Prize seeks to ensure that readers today will have the chance to savour the vitality and sparkle of a new generation of young writers.
