Translating Wales, Reading the World
Autumn 2019
Browse our Bookcases, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Cerdded mewn Cell
Robin Llywelyn
'Experimental and very timely - a call for us to see the word afresh and, at a time of desperate need, to dare to re-imagine it.'
O'r Pedwar Gwynt
Broken Ghost
Niall Griffiths
'A novel that intoxicates, but you had better be able to handle the hangover.'
The Spectator
Docklands: A Ghost Story
Damian Walford Davies
'When much new poetry looks no further than the poet's naval, this kind of imaginative leap is a tonic.'
The Telegraph
Hen Ieithoedd Diflanedig
Mihangel Morgan
'Profound... with flashes of his distinctive playfulness.'
Gwales.com
Throw Me to the Wolves
Patrick McGuinness
'Compulsively readable sophisticated, and keenly alert.'
The New York Times
The Blue Tent
Richard Gwyn
'A mysterious, dream-like story, delicately-written and with a disturbing undertow.'
Patrick McGuinness
Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure
Richard Gwyn
'Impressively layered and packed with puzzles and riddles to pore over and revisit.'
New Welsh Review
