Rhiannon Lewis is an award-winning author from Wales.
I Am the Mask Maker and other stories was shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, Wales Book of the Year 2022.
You can buy copies directly from Victorina Press here. Copies are also available at Waterstones, Foyles, Hatchards and many independent bookshops. If you live in Wales, you may be interested to know that copies are available from www.gwales.com
To read more about the short stories, click here.
Rhiannon Lewis is also the author of My Beautiful Imperial, published by Victorina Press in 2017. In March 2018, the novel was named by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended novels. Authors on the same list included, Neal Ascherson, John Banville, Polly Clark, Rachel Seiffert and Marcel Theroux. A second edition of My Beautiful Imperial was published in 2019.
To read more about My Beautiful Imperial, click here. Copies of My Beautiful Imperial can be bought from all good bookshops and here
To see what the Academy reader said about My Beautiful Imperial, click here. For the full list of the books recommended by the Walter Scott Prize Academy in 2018, click here
My Beautiful Imperial has been translated into Spanish and was published in December 2018 as Mi Querido Imperial. Copies of Mi Querido Imperial can be bought from all good bookshops or from here
The Significance of Swans, which was shortlisted by the Bristol Prize in 2018 (as a short story), was awarded 2nd prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards, Aberystwyth Prize 2019 (as a dystopian novella).
An essay entitled, A View Like That, is included in an anthology of Welsh women’s writing, Painting the Beauty Queens Orange: Women’s Lives in the 1970s, which was published in November 2021 and is available from Honno Press here.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Last Flight of la Librairie d’Afrique du Nord shortlisted by the Twist and Twain short story contest in Assam, India in November 2021. Awaiting final results.
Coercion Cake runner-up in Words by Water, Kinsale Literary Festival, Co Cork, October 2020
Piano Solo wins The William Faulkner Literary Contest for short story, 25 September 2020. See NEWS for press release.
The Last Flight of La Librairie d’Afrique du Nord shortlisted for the HG Wells Short Story Competition, September 2020
The Significance of Swans (novella) runner-up in the New Welsh Writing Awards, May 2019
The Significance of Swans (short story) shortlisted by the Bristol Prize, 2018
My Beautiful Imperial listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended historical novels for 2018
Gabriel’s Halo longlisted in the InkTears Short Story Competition, February 2018
At a Junction placed third in the Hammond House International Short Story Competition, December 2017
Independence Day longlisted in the To Hull and Back short story competition, October 2017
The Jugs Stay with the Dresser longlisted for the Brighton Prize, July 2017
The Jugs Stay with the Dresser awarded first prize in the Frome Festival Short Story Competition, July 2017
Independence Day shortlisted by Writers' Forum short story competition, June 2017
Gabriel’s Halo wins first prize in the Writers' Forum magazine, November 2016
Mi Querido Imperial
The launch of Mi Querido Imperial, the Spanish translation of My Beautiful Imperial, took place on Thursday, 16 May 2019 at the Embassy of Chile, London.