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An event to launch the biography of the famous singer, Wynne Evans, will be held on the Wales YFC Stage at the Royal Welsh Show on Thursday, 26 July, to start at 13.30.

Mischief Managed at Merthyr Central Library as Cabinet Secretary for Education launches the 2018 Summer Reading Challenge.

The Welsh Books Council are in search of just that. For the best in Welsh language children and young adult literature throughout the years so that it can be shared with today's audience.

Robert Minhinnick wins the 2018 Wales Book of the Year Award for his "powerful and political" collection,  Diary of the Last Man.

Griffin Books is hosting the seventh annual Penarth Literature Festival over the weekend 6th-8th July.

On 13 and 14 June, scores of children from 35 schools across Wales took over the Arts Centre in Aberystwyth for two days of keen competition. It was the national round of Darllen Dros Gymru, the Welsh Books Council's Welsh-language books competition for primary schools in Wales. All pupils were competing for a number of prestigious awards by discussing books and performing short dramatic presentations based on titles they had read.

A team of avid readers from Sant Baruc Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan, have been crowned the 2018 Champions of BookSlam, the Welsh Books Council's annual reading competition for children.

The Welsh Books Council has announced the winners of the 2018 Tir na n-Og Welsh-language Awards at the Brecon and Radnorshire Urdd National Eisteddfod at Builth Wells.

Wales; the land of song, daffodils, sheep, rolling hills, Gareth Bale, a baked bean museum and so, so, so much more!

On Friday, 1 June, at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in Builth Wells, the Welsh Books Council and the National Centre for Learning Welsh will launch the first ten new titles in the  Amdani  (Go for it!) series  –  with the Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning, Eluned Morgan AM.