Translating Wales, Reading the World
Autumn 2012
Browse our Bookcases, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Konstantin
Tom Bullough
'Magnificent. Unforgettable. A dazzling coming-of-age novel.' Le Figaro
...moreBlasu (The Taste of Milk and Honey)
Manon Steffan Ros
'This is a novel which engages with our primitive instincts in a world where our instincts are fading.' Catrin Beard
...moreRas Olaf Harri Selwyn (Harri Selwyn’s Last Race)
Tony Bianchi
'One of the most exciting writers working in Wales today.' Taliesin
...moreMarried Love
Tessa Hadley
'Hadley joins Munro and Tóibín as one of the most clear-sighted chroniclers of contemporary emotional journeys.' The Guardian
...moreThe Book of Idiots
Christopher Meredith
'A darkly comic triumph full of uncomfortable truths.' ShortList Magazine
...moreThe Keys of Babylon
Robert Minhinnick
'Minhinnick’s powerful work has an epic quality.' The Independent
...moreBurying the Wren
Deryn Rees-Jones
'Burying the Wren is a major event and achievement in the poetry of these islands.' Ian Duhig
...moreBlue Remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds
'Reynolds’s near-future is brilliantly extrapolated, with original ideas fizzing off each page. Excellent.' The Guardian
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