Pryfeta was the name of the winning novel in the Daniel Owen prize.
The rumours sweeping around the Maes at lunchtime proved to be half-right. Two judges wanted to award Tony Bianchi the main prize while a third did not. It would be interesting to know what happened in the privacy of the judges room!
Tony, now lives in Cardiff but was born originally in Northumberland and moved to Wales when he studied at the university in Lampeter.
A fluent Welsh speaker with a Ceredigion accent he puts many of those who claim the language is just too difficult to learn. Not only has he written prize winning novels but has also written prize winning poetry too. Not just free verse but the most difficult form of strict metre poems, the englyn.
