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Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, a small town in northern Ontario, Canada, where he lived for four years before moving to Anglesey (or Ynys Mon in Welsh), an island off the coast of north Wales.
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May 6th 2020

Ebook version of new collection of stories, Shattercone, is published. Paper version due to come out October 1st.
 

May 16th 2018

Short story, 'Up Here', wins an O. Henry Award and will be included in the 2018 O. Henry Prize Anthology.

May 11th 2018

Hummingbird shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2018.

Recent Reviews

Hughes's rapt and rhythmic prose captures all the secretive intensity of an "entire compacted country": not just this island of saints and sinners off the north Welsh coast, but youth itself.
- The Independent

Superbly accomplished. Hughes's prose is startling and luminous.
-Financial Times