The Last Hundred Days<\/em>. The interview will be held in the Humanities Building, Cardiff University.<\/p>\nGwyn\u2019s book, a memoir about his own reckless wanderings around the Mediterranean during the 1980s, won the award for creative non-fiction. McGuinness\u2019s novel, which describes the unravelling of the communist system in Romania, won the fiction award.<\/p>\n
Event organiser James Vilares says, \u201cThese are two of the most high-quality texts published by Welsh authors this year and provide a valuable assessment of where Welsh literature is.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cardiff University\u2019s Creative Minds festival is hosting a discussion evening with the winning authors of the 2012 Wales Book of the Year award. On 22 November at 8pm, Richard Gwyn and Patrick McGuinness will be interviewed about their respective prizewinning titles, The Vagabond\u2019s Breakfast and… <\/p>\n
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