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ⓘ About Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in the year 1974, and brought up in London as well as Abergavenny, where his parents returned to after he was born and he lived most of his life. He is a Welsh playwright, author, and poet. He was educated at King Henry VIII School Abergavenny, Oxford, New College, and the University of East Anglia. He is a Professor in Creativity at Swansea University. Owen has a wife, named Katherine, who is from Abergavenny, and together, they have a daughter. “The Green Hollow”, which is a film poem, was nominated for a Grierson and a BAFTA. Sheers’ debut novel, called “Resistance”, was released in the year 2007, and has been translated into eight languages.
All Book Series by Owen Sheers
Letters to the Future: On Equality and Gender
Book 3 of 4 · published 2018 Co-authored · Laura Bates
The Suppliant Women(464)Description / Buy at AmazonThe Complete Dramatic Works
Series opener · book 1 of 59 · published 1961 Anthology · Aeschylus
Theatre for Children
Book 6 of 59 · published 1999 Anthology · David Wood - UK,Janet Grant
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
Book 14 of 59 · published 2011 Anthology · David Greig
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Book 15 of 59 · published 2012 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
Impro for Storytellers
Book 18 of 59 · published 2014 Anthology · Keith Johnstone
Shakespeare in Love
Book 19 of 59 · published 2014 Anthology · Tom Stoppard,LeeHall,Marc Norman
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Book 23 of 59 · published 2015 Anthology · LeeHall
Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation
Book 31 of 59 · published 2017 Co-authored · Ceri Wyn Jones
My Country; A Work In Progress
Book 32 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Carol Ann Duffy,Rufus Norris
The Mentor
Book 33 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Daniel Kehlmann
The Lie
Book 38 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller
Christmas Eve
Book 40 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Daniel Kehlmann
The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings
Book 45 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · John McGahern
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Book 50 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Harold Pinter
The Height of the Storm
Book 52 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Book 55 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Martin McDonagh
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
Book 56 of 59 · published 2019 Anthology · Martin Crimp
The Inheritance
Latest in the series · book 59 of 59 · published 2020 Anthology · Matthew Lopez
Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2018 Anthology · Laura Bates
Letters to the Future: On Equality and Gender
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2018 Co-authored · Laura Bates
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Owen Sheers?
Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in the year 1974, and brought up in London as well as Abergavenny, where his parents returned to after he was born and he lived most of his life. He is a Welsh playwright, author, and poet. He was educated at King Henry VIII School Abergavenny, Oxford, New College, and the University of East Anglia.
Which Owen Sheers series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Drama series, the earliest of Owen Sheers's multi-book series: it opens with The Suppliant Women(464)Description / Buy at AmazonThe Complete Dramatic Works (1961) and runs to 59 books across 1961–2020, ending with The Inheritance (2020).
How many books has Owen Sheers written?
Owen Sheers has 77 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1961 and 2020. 61 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the Faber Drama series with 59 books — and 16 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Owen Sheers's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Owen Sheers's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Drama (1961–2020, 59 books) and Laura Bates Collections (2018, 2 books).
How are Owen Sheers's books organised into series?
This guide splits Owen Sheers's 77 books into 2 named series and 16 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Drama (59 books, 1961–2020); Laura Bates Collections (2 books, 2018).