Eluned Gramich is a German-Welsh writer and translator. She lived in Japan and Germany for several years before returning to Wales to pursue her Creative Writing PhD at Aberystwyth University.

Her memoir about Hokkaido, Woman Who Brings the Rain (2015), won the New Welsh Writing Awards, was shortlisted for a Wales Book of the Year Award and selected for international promotion by Wales Literature Exchange in 2016.

Her stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Rarebit: New Welsh Fiction (Parthian, 2014), New Welsh Short Stories (Seren, 2015), an anthology of young Welsh and European authors Zero Hours on the Boulevard: Tales of Independence and Belonging (Parthian, 2019), Cast a Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime (Honno, 2022), and a Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (Tilted Axis Press, 2022). Her non-fiction writing in English has been published in Wales Arts Review, New Welsh Review, and World Literature Online, and her writing in Welsh in O’r Pedwar Gwynt.

Her translation of a short story collection by the Swiss author Monique Schwitter was published as Goldfish Memory (Parthian, 2015).

She was selected as one of four Welsh writers and translators to participate in the Ulysses’ Shelter residency programme.

She is based in Aberystwyth where she works as a librarian in the National Library of Wales.

Watch Eluned read from her first novel, Woman Who Brings the Rain, here.

Her latest book, Windstill, is selected to our 2023 Bookshelf.