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Her Gyfieithu 2019

This year, the poems to translate from Polish to Welsh for the Her Gyfieithu are 'Szuflada' and 'Relentlessly craving' by contemporary Polish poet, Julia Fiedorczuk.

The poems can be read here, along with a Spanish and English translation.

Deadline: 17 June 2019.

Adjudicator: Dr ...more

Translating Emyr Humphreys

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner, Paris Review Interview (1956) 

Last month we celebrated the 100th birthday of one of Wales’ most renowned and prolific ...more

Bookcase Focus: An Interview with Emma Glass

Wales Literature Exchange interviewed our Bookcase author Emma Glass, about her writing and her influences.

1. What first inspired you to be an author and where do your ideas come from?

I still don’t quite think of myself as an author, more like a girl who wrote a story and ...more

New translations April 2019

We have received many copies of new translations recently, all aided by our Translation Grants Fund.

Sexto Piso have just published Mariano Peyrou's Spanish translation of Peach by Emma Glass, which was selected to our Autumn 2018 Bookcase.

Anisa Trifoni translated Rebecca F. ...more