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A Welsh pop legend, a National Eisteddfod winner and a young poet are amongst authors shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2015.

The short list was revealed in an online broadcast from Galeri Caernarfon at lunchtime today.

Literature Wales chief executive Lleucu Siencyn said more than 90 eligible English-language books were submitted to the judges, of which nine books have been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award.

Amongst the English Language Short List are Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys with his book American Interior and Jonathan Edwards with his 2014 Costa Poetry Award winning title My Family and Other Superheroes.

Caernarfon-born poet Llyr Gwyn Lewis has two books listed in different categories on the Welsh language short list.

Mum-of-four Lleucu Roberts from Rhostryfan near Caernarfon is shortlisted in the fiction category for her novel Saith Oes Efa which won the prose medal at last year’s National Eisteddfod.

Judging the English-language titles for the 2015 award are journalist and literary critic Alex Clark, author Tessa Hadley and poet Paul Henry while author Annes Glynn, poet and lecturer Hywel Griffiths, and author and performer Gareth Potter are the Welsh language judges.

Ms Siencyn said: “The Wales Book of the Year Short List 2015 is a great reflection of the standard of literature in Wales today. The shortlisted authors take us on many journeys – to faraway lands, to various locations across Wales, and into the minds of characters both likeable and loathsome.

“With only a month to go until Literature Wales reveals which books will receive the title of English or Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year 2015, here are eighteen exceptional books which are well worth your time.”

The winners will be announced at a Ceremony at Galeri Caernarfon on June 4. Each category winner will receive a prize of £2,000, and the main award winners in each language will receive an additional £6,000.

Tickets for the Award ceremony are available from Galeri Caernarfon: 01286 685222 and galericaernarfon.com

At the Award Ceremony both the People’s Choice Award and Gwobr Barn y Bobl (the Welsh-langauge people’s prize) will be presented to the reading public’s favourite title from the Short List.

Visit the Wales Arts Review website to vote for your favourite English-language title: www.walesartsreview.org . For further information on the Wales Book of the year Award visit walesbookoftheyear.co.uk

The Welsh language 2015 Short List in full:

Poetry Short List

Un Stribedyn Bach, Rhys Iorwerth (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch)

Storm ar Wyneb yr Haul, Llŷr Gwyn Lewis (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas)

Wilia, Meic Stephens (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas)

Fiction Short List

Awst yn Anogia, Gareth F. Williams (Gwasg Gwynedd)

Saith Oes Efa, Lleucu Roberts (Y Lolfa)

Y Fro Dywyll, Jerry Hunter (Y Lolfa)

Creative Non-Fiction Short List

Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel, Llŷr Gwyn Lewis (Y Lolfa)

100 o Olygfeydd Hynod Cymru, Dyfed Elis-Gruffydd (Y Lolfa)

Mwy na Bardd, Kate Crockett (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas)

The English language 2015 Short List:

Creative Non-Fiction Short List

Down to the Sea in Ships, Horatio Clare (Chatto & Windus)

Other People’s Countries, Patrick McGuinness (Jonathan Cape)

American Interior, Gruff Rhys (Hamish Hamilton)

The Roland Mathias Poetry Award Short List

Telling Tales, Patience Agbabi (Canongate Books)

So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson (Bloodaxe Books)

My Family and Other Superheroes, Jonathan Edwards (Seren)

Fiction Short List

The Redemption of Galen Pike, Carys Davies (Salt)

The Dig, Cynan Jones (Granta)

Burrard Inlet, Tyler Keevil (Parthian)