Our Bookshelf
Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Emyr Lewis
“This is a good story masterfully told. It asks big questions about Welsh politics, its narrative is written with poise and subtilty, it conjures an imaginary alternative world, and prompts an occasional burst of laughter in the reader.”
Angharad Price
“Smart, rapid, prophetic. This is a novel that will change your mind about the future of Wales. This novel predicts a new kind of future."
Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
“It’s clear that Roberts – one of the most seriously intellectual and sharply analytical Welsh language writers – has had a lot of fun in creating his vision of a decade in a future Wales.”
Cymru Fydd
Wales 2090. An independent country. A prosperous country. A powerful sovereign country that has claimed its place on the world stage since 2049. But who is in control? And is it a land of milk and honey for all, or merely a privileged few?
Koi and his friends are trapped in a nightmare. Koi resents those whose lives are characterised by apathy. But History has shown those docile Cymrics that all revolutionary movements are perfected by weakness – until the feeble one day rise and stand tall.
Before the War of 2049, the Welsh were a destitute nation, their country one of the poorest provinces of Western Europe – not altogether barren, but not living either. If a new society is to tread upon the aged soil of this land, a brave new vision must be imagined. Mercifully, Cardiff city drowns under the waves
Cymru Fydd takes us on a heady journey, depicting the political and personal turmoil of the history of the citizens and leaders of the State of Wales. The nation suffers a great deal before mustering the strength to challenge its own preconceived ideology. But that which confronts Koi is more testing than he, or anyone else, can imagine, such that the person he becomes in the year 2100 bears little resemblance to the person he once was in 2090.
- O’r Pedwar Gwynt (2022)
O’r Pedwar Gwynt
Videos
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Watch Author discuss and read from Poetry Connections on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Jasmine Donahaye on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Translating Minority Languages in the Literary Translation Centre
Watch Author discuss and read from Digwyddiad Diwrnod Rhyngwladol Mamiaith 2021
Watch Author discuss and read from Alun Davies | Ar Lwybr Dial (Pursuit of Vengeance)
Watch Author discuss and read from Cyfnewid Anrhegion
Watch Author discuss and read from Iaith y Nefoedd (The Language of Heaven) | Llwyd Owen
Watch Author discuss and read from Mari Strachan on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Aled Islwyn on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from The Party Wall | Stevie Davies
Watch Author discuss and read from The Jeweller | Caryl Lewis, translated by Gwen Davies
Watch Author discuss and read from We Could Be Anywhere By Now | Katherine Stansfield
Watch Author discuss and read from Footnotes to Water | Zoë Skoulding
Watch Author discuss and read from Gwirionedd | Elinor Wyn Reynolds
Watch Author discuss and read from Stillicide | Cynan Jones
Watch Author discuss and read from The Mission House | Carys Davies
Watch Author discuss and read from Wing | Matthew Francis
Watch Author discuss and read from Filò | Siân Melangell Dafydd
Watch Author discuss and read from Cymdeithas Cyfieithwyr Cymru yn cyflwyno Ffon yr Her Gyfieithu i Grug Muse yng Nghricieth on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Her Gyfieithu 2020 Translation Challenge
Watch Author discuss and read from Zafer Şenocak 'Nahaufnahmen’
Watch Author discuss and read from Grug Muse 'Craffu' on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Eleoma Bodammer 'Close ups' on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Tony Bianchi on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Damian Walford Davies on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Owen Martell on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Fflur Dafydd on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Wiliam Owen Roberts on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Deborah Kay Davies on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Lloyd Jones on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Stevie Davies on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Owen Sheers on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Jasmine Donahaye on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Siân Melangell Dafydd on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Lloyd Markham on Bad Ideas/Chemicals
Watch Author discuss and read from Llŷr Gwyn Lewis on Rhyw Flodau Rhyfel (Some Flowers of War)
Watch Author discuss and read from Llŷr Gwyn Lewis on 'Fabula'
Watch Author discuss and read from Richard Gwyn on The Blue Tent on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Eluned Gramich - Woman Who Brings the Rain on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Angharad Price on O! Tyn y Gorchudd on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Manon Steffan Ros on Llyfr Glas Nebo on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Niall Griffiths on Broken Ghost on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Richard Gwyn on Stowaway: A Levantine Journey on Vimeo
Watch Author discuss and read from Darllen y Byd - Llenyddiaeth Ryngwladol i Blant yn y Gymraeg
Reviews
“This is a good story masterfully told. It asks big questions about Welsh politics, its narrative is written with poise and subtilty, it conjures an imaginary alternative world, and prompts an occasional burst of laughter in the reader.”
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