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Peter Thabit Jones was born in Wales and raised by his maternal grandparents. He is the author of ten books, several of which have been reprinted and two published in Romania. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His latest international book is Poems from a Cabin on Big Sur, from Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 2011.
In March 2008 Peters American publisher, Stanley H. Barkan, organised a six week poetry reading tour for Peter and Dylan Thomass daughter, Aeronwy. The pair gave readings and workshops from New York to California, at many universities and prestigious art venues.
Peter is also the co-author, with Aeronwy, of the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village .
He was invited to Serbia in 2006 by the Serbian Writers Association to participate in the 43rd International Meeting of Writers in Belgrade. He was visiting poet in Romania in 2008 and 2009, where he carried out readings and poetry workshops at colleges and universities.
He is the recipient of the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry (The Society of Authors, London), The Society of Authors Award, The Royal Literary Fund Award (London) and an Arts Council of Wales Award. He has been a prize-winner in several UK and international poetry competitions.
He resided at Big Sur, California, in 2010 as writer-in-residence, returning again for a second and third residency in 2011 and 2012. Whilst in California in 2012, Peter was commissioned to write a drama on Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara (famous for his sculpture of Elizabeth Taylor in the film The Sandpiper ). It will receive its world-premiere in America in 2014.
Peter is the Founder and Editor of The Seventh Quarry Swansea Poetry Magazine , which publishes poetry and articles from around the world, and the accompanying The Seventh Quarry Publishing Press, which publishes books by international poets.
His poem Kilvey Hill has been incorporated into a permanent stained-glass window at the new Saint Thomas Community School in Swansea, Wales.
In December 2012, Peter was one of just eight people invited to meet His Royal Highness Prince Charles at the Dylan Thomas Birthplace in Swansea.
He returned to California in the summer of 2013, as a writer-in-residence in Big Sur for a fourth time.
In 2014, he will be a part of a number of events commemorating Dylan Thomas in the UK and in America, including being the co-organiser of a Dylan Thomas Multilingual/International Creative Writing Competition and the organiser of a Dylan Thomas Trail of Quotations at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
His short drama, The Poet, the Hunchback, and The Boy, based on The hunchback in the park by Dylan Thomas, is available as a DVD, as part of the Centenary celebrations of the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea. The drama was performed by Theatre actors at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, and The Welsh Centre, London, in May 2013.
