Owen Sheers is an author, poet and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean nonfiction narrative, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Onaadtje prize and won the Welsh Book of the Year. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F, and the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry and Welsh Book of the Year for Pink Mist, which was also a Guardian and Observer top ten of the year theater selection. I Saw A Man was short listed for the Prix Femina Etranger. He has been a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow and is currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. He lives in Wales with his wife and daughter.