Literature Wales announced that Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough and Sut i Ddofi Corryn by Mari George are this year's winners of the Wales Book of the Year, which was created to "celebrate and platform talented Welsh writers who excel in their fields in both English and Welsh."
Category awards were presented in both languages for poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, children & young people, and people's choice. One of the category winners in each language went on to win the overall prize. See the complete list of winners here.
Each category winner took home £1,000 (about $1,300), with one category winner in each language going on to receive an additional £3,000 (about $3,900) for the overall award. Bullough won the creative nonfiction category, while George took the fiction category.