Eisteddfod row: the curious case of the AI novel that wasn’t

Desmond Clifford All the best eisteddfods have a row. Like football, eisteddfods arouse passion precisely because, in the end, no one gets killed. Even so, the rows often point to larger matters. Among the Eisteddfod’s competitions is the “Daniel Owen Prize”, awarded for the best unpublished novel, at least 50,000 words in length. It was…