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has won the 2010 prize with his poetry collection I Spy Pinhole Eye.

It is the second major literary accolade for the professor of creative writing, who teaches at the University of Glamorgan, after he collected the 2009 TS Eliot Poetry Prize for another poetry collection The Water Table in January.

The Wales Book of the Year announcement was made at the awards ceremony at the St David's Spa and Hotel in Cardiff Bay last night, presented by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales political editor Betsan Powys.

Photograph of the shortlisted authors Terri Wiltshire, Nikolai Tolstoy and Philip Gross © John Briggs

Gross was shortlisted along with Terri Wiltshire for her novel Carry Me Home and Nikolai Tolstoy for The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.

The award for the Welsh language prize was also handed out at the ceremony last night, with John Davies scooping the prize for Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw.

Read more about the Wales Book of the Year award on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales Arts and browse galleries from the longlist and shortlist announcements from earlier this year.

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