Authors honoured at prestigious travel writing awards
TWO Welsh authors have been honoured in prestigious travel writing awards.
The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018 saw Tristan Hughes and Jan Morris pick up awards.
Taking home the award for Hayes & Jarvis Fiction for his latest novel Hummingbird shone out against competition from multi-award-winning titles including Nicole DennisBenn’s Here Comes the Sun and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko.
Hughes was born in Atikokan, a small town in northern Ontario, Canada, where he lived for four years before moving to Anglesey. He now lives in Cardiff, where he is the AHRC Fellow in Creative Writing at Cardiff University.
The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards also honoured Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL, for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.
Having spent more than half her life travelling, penning more than 40 books and countless essays, articles and reviews, Morris has been described as the greatest descriptive writer of her time and has introduced readers to the world through her words.
Her next book, Battleship Yamato, is a tribute to the Imperial Japanese battleship Yamato, which is being published on March 1.
Accepting her Award, Morris said: “What I’m writing about is not the journey or the travel or even to some extent the place, but the effect of a place upon a particular individual’s sensibility.
“Thank you so much for my award. It is a beautiful thing.”