Wiliam Owen Roberts

Wiliam Owen Roberts (1960-) was brought up in Garndolbenmaen, north Wales and now lives in Cardiff. His first novel, Bingo! (1985) was described as the first post-modern Welsh novel, and marked the beginning of a period of new maturity in the history of the genre in the Welsh language. Y Pla (Pestilence, 1987), his second novel, won him an Arts Council of Wales award in 1988, and has been translated into English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian and Slovak. His work includes plays and several television and radio series. Paradwys, a more recent novel (Paradise, 2001), is a monumental work which moves between Wales, London, Paris and Haiti in the late eighteenth century.His most recent novel, Petrograd (2009), is set during the Russian Revolution, which went on the win the Wales Book of the Year award