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Cynan Jones was born in 1975 near Aberaeron, Wales where he now lives and works.
He is the author of four short novels, The Long Dry (Parthian, 2006), Everything I Found on the Beach (Parthian, 2011), Bird, Blood, Snow (Seren, 2012), and most recently The Dig (Granta, 2014).
His first novel won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award and saw the author nominated as the 2008 Hay Festival Scritture Giovani. The Dig a chapter of which was shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015.
His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta and New Welsh Review. His piece A Glass of Cold Water aired as part of BBC 4s State of the Nation series; he has also written variously for national newspapers.
Granta Books have recently republished his first two novels, and Cove, his next, will be published in Autumn 2016.
He is currently at work on another book.
He is the author of four short novels, The Long Dry (Parthian, 2006), Everything I Found on the Beach (Parthian, 2011), Bird, Blood, Snow (Seren, 2012), and most recently The Dig (Granta, 2014).
His first novel won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award and saw the author nominated as the 2008 Hay Festival Scritture Giovani. The Dig a chapter of which was shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award won a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2014 and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015.
His work has been translated into several languages, and short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta and New Welsh Review. His piece A Glass of Cold Water aired as part of BBC 4s State of the Nation series; he has also written variously for national newspapers.
Granta Books have recently republished his first two novels, and Cove, his next, will be published in Autumn 2016.
He is currently at work on another book.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Fantasy
Novels
The Long Dry (2006)
Everything I Found on the Beach (2011)
The Dig (2014)
Cove (2016)
Stillicide (2019)
Everything I Found on the Beach (2011)
The Dig (2014)
Cove (2016)
Stillicide (2019)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Cynan Jones recommends
Fowl Eulogies (2023)
Lucie Rico
"The book is extraordinary! It's a love fable. Disturbing, compelling, and heartbreaking, and - like some great magic trick - utterly convincing. I've more to say, about the warnings in the story, the soft horror of homogeny, about how things - endeavour, care, a species - mutate when taken from their natural place ... but the story itself says it all much better. It's brilliant."
Tides (2022)
Sara Freeman
"One of the most carefully written, brave, honest, devastating books I've read for a long time. There were lines in it so emotionally accurate and merciless they made me squint up my eyes. It's explosive. But the effect is the inside-your-body, barely-heard-properly percussive receipt of a detonation felt at a distance."
Under the Blue (2021)
Oana Aristide
"Under the Blue fuses the 'keep moving' urgency that drives apocalyptic road novels with a restrained love story and a science fiction that is at once unnerving, tender and credible."
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