 Novelists include Richard Collins, whose debut work, "The Land as Viewed from the Sea", was shortlisted for a Whitbread Award in 2004; and Lloyd Jones whose novel "Mr Cassini" won the English-language Wales Book of the Year award in 2007.Amongst other writers are Dannie Abse, Mike Jenkins, Ruth Bidgood, Tony Curtis, Rhys Davies, Dic Edwards, Rhian Edwards, Catherine Fisher, Raymond Garlick, Paul Groves, Paul Henry, Glyn Jones, Alun Lewis, Gary Ley, Ivy Alvarez, Christopher Meredith, Edward Thomas, R. S. Thomas and John Tripp.Seren celebrated 30 years of operation in 2011.