Pooja Antony

Feb 16, 2021

Pooja Antony works as a primary school teacher and joins the Tir na n-Og Awards panel for the first time in 2021. She says she’s looking forward to being part of the annual contest celebrating books from Wales for children and young people.  Shwmae! My name is...

Jo Bowers, Chair

Feb 16, 2021

Jo Bowers is Associate Dean for Partnerships in the School of Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She was a member of the Tir na n-Og Awards judging panel in 2020 and is Chair in 2021. Books are an integral part of her everyday work but, she says,...

Jannat Ahmed

Feb 16, 2021

Jannat Ahmed is editor-in-chief at Lucent Dreaming.  I was born and grew up in Barry and now run my own creative writing magazine called Lucent Dreaming.  I have worked for Poetry Wales where I created a UK-wide poetry competition for young poets called Wales Young...

Hywel James, Chair

Feb 16, 2021

Hywel James is Chair of the panel responsible for judging the Welsh-language books in the primary and secondary categories of the Tir na n-Og Awards 2021. As Gwynedd’s former Chief Librarian, reading has been an important part of his life since childhood....

Tir na n-Og Book Awards 2020

Feb 14, 2021

Books tackling some of the big issues of the day came to the fore in the 2020 Tir na n-Og Awards for children’s and young people’s literature in Welsh. Welsh-language Category – Primary  Pobol Drws Nesaf (‘The People Next Door’) by author Manon Steffan Ros and...