{"id":270434,"date":"2025-07-17T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270434\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:24:12","slug":"author-carys-davies-wins-wales-book-of-the-year-with-novel-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270434\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Carys Davies wins Wales Book of the Year with novel Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on behalf of the judging panel, Carole Burns said: &#8220;We all loved this book, for its story, for its ambition, for its sentences, for its relevance to our world today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Excellence is always the only criteria, in the end, for a prize, and that&#8217;s true for this winning book,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the ceremony, Literature Wales&#8217; artistic director Leusa Llewelyn congratulated all the writers and publishers who reached the shortlist, and said it was &#8220;an incredible night for Welsh literature&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Special congratulations to Carys Davies for being crowned winner of the overall prize for her beautifully subtle yet evocative novella, Clear,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking on behalf of the judging panel, Carole Burns said: &#8220;We all loved this book, for its story,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}