Congratulations to Carys Davies, whose novel CLEAR (Scribner US and Granta Books) has been named the 2025 Wales Book of the Year in Fiction!
The Wales Book of the Year awards program, bestowed by Literature Wales, “plays an essential part in Literature Wales’ programme of activity and contributes to its strategic aim of celebrating and representing Wales’s writers, its heritage and rich literary culture. The prize offers an invaluable platform to both emerging and established writers.”
The judges’ panel wrote the following about Carys Davies’s CLEAR:
“We all loved this book, for its story, for its ambition, for its sentences, for its relevance to our world today. It is an intricately crafted, passionate and remarkable novel. Excellence is always the only criteria, in the end, for a prize, and that’s true for this winning book. Congratulations to Carys Davies, author of this year’s winning book, Clear.”
Learn more about the Wales Book of the Year awards here.
And learn more about Clear here.
