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Mark Blayney

マーク・ブレイニー

Māku Bureinī

Aliases: Mark Blayney Stuart

Pen Names: Mark Blayney Stuart（Used for business journalism）

Profile

Gender: Male
Born: 1973
Nationality: British
Languages: English
Residence History: Cardiff

Career

Occupations: Writer, Poet, Journalist
Active Years: 1995-2025
Affiliations: Chartered Institute of Marketing, Cardiff University, Swansea University, Hay Festival, Royal Literary Fund
Memberships: Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund
Nominations: Nominated for Business Journalist of the Year at the 2017 Wales Media Awards

Education

Institution	Faculty	Department	Degree	Period	Country
Royal Holloway	—	—	—	—	United Kingdom

Royal Holloway

Year of Graduation: 1995

Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Year	Award	Work	Category	Organization	Result
2004	Somerset Maugham Award	Two Kinds of Silence	—	Society of Authors	winner
2023	Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting	Invisibility	—	New Welsh Review	winner

Somerset Maugham Award

2004

Work: Two Kinds of Silence

Organization: Society of Authors

Result: winner

Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting

2023

Work: Invisibility

Organization: New Welsh Review

Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Somerset Maugham Award 1 appearances

Edition 0 (2004) Winner

Works

Major Works

Two Kinds of Silence

2003 Short story collection

Collection of short stories. Self-published and won the Somerset Maugham Award.

Invisibility

Novel

Novel with a Welsh theme or setting. Won the Rheidol Prize.

Doppelgangers

Fiction

Loud Music Makes You Drive Faster

The view from my shed

This is not a pipe

Bibliography

Two Kinds of Silence
Doppelgangers
Loud Music Makes You Drive Faster
The view from my shed
This is not a pipe
Invisibility

Legacy

British writer known for winning the Somerset Maugham Award with his self-published short story collection. Resident in Wales and winner of Welsh-themed prizes.

Trivia

First self-published author to win the Somerset Maugham Award.
Born 1973 or 1974.