International Dylan Thomas Prize winner to be announced
The winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, a competition for young writers, will be announced on Thursday.
Seven authors from across the globe have been shortlisted and the £30,000 prize winner will be announced at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.
The age limit has been raised from 30 to 39 - Thomas's age when he died.
This year marks the centenary of the Swansea-born poet's birth and a host of events have taken place to mark it.
One of the shortlisted authors, Eleanor Catton, said: "The really exciting thing about the prize is that it celebrates young writers."
The shortlist is:
- Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (Granta)
- Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour (Viking)
- Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Faber & Faber)
- Kseniya Melnik, Snow in May (Fourth Estate)
- Kei Miller, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet Press)
- Owen Sheers, Mametz (National Theatre Wales)
- Naomi Wood, Mrs Hemingway (Picador)
The seven writers in the running for the prize come from Wales, England, Ireland, Jamaica, the United States, Russia and New Zealand.