RUSSELL CELYN JONES

Russell Celyn Jones is a novelist and critic, a Booker Prize Judge (2002), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize judge (1998) and is a staff reviewer for The Times. His novels are: TEN SECONDS FROM THE SUN, published by Little,Brown (2006), Surface Tension, Little, Brown (2001), The Eros Hunter, Little, Brown (1998), An Interference of Light, Viking Penguin (1995), Small Times, Viking Penguin (1992), Soldiers and Innocents, Jonathan Cape (1990) and Little, Brown (1998). His short fiction has been anthologised in Summer Magic, Bloomsbury (2003), Time Out Book of London Short Stories, Penguin (2000), The Ex-Files, Quartet (1998), Time Out Book of New York Stories, Penguin (1997). Non-fiction: “Standards in Creative Writing Teaching”, The Creative Writing Coursebook, Macmillan (2001), “Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, The Atlas of Literature, Ed. Malcolm Bradbury, De Agostini (1996). He has been awarded the Society of Author’s Award (1997), Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize (1991), David Higham Prize (1990).