Browse our Bookshelf, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Mererid Hopwood
Winner of the 2016 Wales Book of the Year (Poetry)Mererid Hopwood is one of the best-known poets writing today in Welsh who made history as the first woman to win the bardic chair at the…moreEluned Gramich
Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Award | Shortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the YearIn her prizewinning début, Eluned Gramich takes us on her own journey of discovery into a strange…moreAled Evans
It is 1808 and a man sets out to walk from south Wales to London. The stonemason Edward Williams, who has reinvented himself as the poet, antiquarian, literary genius and fraud, Iolo Morgannwg, is…moreGuto Dafydd
Winner of the Daniel Owen Memorial PrizeWhen a young man from a small town in rural north-west Wales has to spend six weeks in Manchester undergoing radiotherapy to treat a tumour, his hospital…moreSian Northey
Three young people, Carys, Steffan and Lora, are sharing an isolated farmhouse, Rhyd y gro, but their lives and relationships change for ever when a stranger, Rhydian moves in with them. Thirty…moreStevie Davies
Twenty-nine years after his disappearance on the Iranian-Turkish border, Jack Messenger’s remains come to light. Travel writer, possible spy and murder victim, Jack was as enigmatic in life as he…moreTom Bullough
From the birth of Oliver Hamer in 1941 to the imminent birth of his first grandchild in 2011, Tom Bullough’s powerful new novel traces seventy years of rural life through the story of a farming…more