![]() ![]() ![]() An overall winner in each language is still chosen. In 2019, a sub-category for books for children and young people was added, to be awarded from the 2020 award onwards. The format was again changed in 2012, expanding the entries to three categories, fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry with English and Welsh language winners in each field. In 2009, Media Wales sponsored a voted "People's Choice" award for the English-language works. From 2007, four runners-up (two in each language) also each receive £1000. Since 2006, the winners have each received £10,000. The winners are announced in June or July. The longlist of ten works in each language is published in April and the shortlist of three works in each language at the Hay Festival in May. Established in 1992, the awards are currently administered by Literature Wales, and supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government and the Welsh Books Council. ![]() The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Best Welsh and English language works by Welsh or Welsh interest authors ![]()
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