Cynan Jones (born 1975) is a Welsh writer, who lives and works in Ceredigion.[1] Jones published his first novel, The Long Dry, in 2006. In 2010 he published Le Cose Che Non Vogliamo Più (Things We Don't Want Anymore) in Italian. Since then, he has published four novels, Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), The Dig (2014), and Cove (2016) and a collection of linked short stories, Stillicide (2019). He has also written a collection of children's stories and episodes of the television series Hinterland (TV series).[2] His work has been translated into other languages, and his short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta, New Welsh Review, and The New Yorker.
Jones's writing has received awards including the Betty Trask Award (2007) and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize (2015). In October 2017, he won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award for The Edge of the Shoal.[3]
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