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Creative Europe Funding Opportunities

18 December 2014

Creative Europe Desk UK in co-operation with Wales Literature Exchange are holding a free…

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2014 Highlights: Mr Schwob arrives in Wales

17 December 2014

On World Book Day 2014 Mr Schwob started talking about his favourite modern classics not only in…

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2014 Highlights: Francesca Rhydderch at The Bookworm International Literary Festival, Beijing

16 December 2014

2014 has been a succseful year for author Francesca Rhydderch. Her novel, The Rice Paper Diaries,…

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Wales Literature Exchange 2014 Highlights

15 December 2014

As 2014 draws to an end, Wales Literature Exchange looks back on the past year. Over the coming…

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Translating Wales, Reading the World: Chile and Argentina

05 December 2014

In partnership with the Welsh language literary magazine, Taliesin, Wales Literature Exchange is…

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Publishers from Wales visit the Basque country

03 December 2014

Editors from Seren Books and Parthian will visit the Basque country to get an insight into the book…

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Cynan Jones at the Gudalajara International Bookfair

25 November 2014

Cynan Jones will celebrate the publication of La tejonera, the Spanish translation of his novel The…

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Bookcase Focus: An interview with Cynan Jones

25 November 2014

Wales Literature Exchange interviewed our Bookcase author Cynan Jones ahead of his journey to the…

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Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard chosen as 'The Greatest Welsh Novel'

06 November 2014

Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlight Night) has been chosen as The Greatest Welsh Novel by a panel of…

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Gwyneth Lewis awarded for English translation of Dafydd ap Gwilym

05 November 2014

Gwyneth Lewis, former National Poet of Wales, has been awarded second prize in the Stephen Spender…

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Spanish translation of The Vagabond’s Breakfast to be launched in Latin America

28 October 2014

El desyauno del vagabundo, Ines Garland and Jorge Fondebrider’s Spanish translation of The…

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Wales Literature Exchange at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2014

07 October 2014

Wales Literature Exchange will be heading to Germany, for the biggest gathering in the publishing…

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Angharad Price to appear at International Translation Day 2014

25 September 2014

Angharad Price will be among speakers at International Translation Day 2014 on Friday, September…

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Tessa Hadley and Francesca Rhydderch short listed for the BBC National Short Story Award

18 September 2014

Tessa Hadley and Francesca Rhydderch have been short listed for the BBC National Short Story…

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New Under the Sun literary pop-up festival

18 September 2014

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the…

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Richard Gwyn, Creative Wales Ambassador, in Bogotá

09 September 2014

Creative Wales Ambassador, Richard Gwyn has arrived in Bogotá, Columbia to participate in a…

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International Translation Day 2014

26 August 2014

The International Translation Day 2014 symposium programme has been announced. Now in its fifth…

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A Good Friend of Wales: In Memory of Guido Leotta

12 August 2014

In the night between the 1st and 2nd February last Guido Leotta died after a heart attack. Guido,…

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Success for our Bookshelf authors

17 July 2014

A number of books selected to the Wales Literature Exchange 2013-14 Bookshelf have been successful…

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English PEN support translation of Wiliam Owen Roberts' Paris

08 July 2014

English PEN have awarded support for the translation of the latest novel by Wiliam Owen Roberts.…

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179° – Zoë Skoulding & Samira Negrouche collaboration

01 July 2014

In an encounter between languages and sound, Zoë Skoulding and Algerian poet Samira Negrouche are…

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Welsh classics selected for Schwob list

01 July 2014

A Toy Epic by Emyr Humphreys and Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlight Night) by Caradog Prichard have…

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Wales Literature Exchange give evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee

26 June 2014

Dr Sioned Puw Rowlands, Director of Wales Literature Exchange will give evidence to the Welsh…

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Schwob Publisher Fellowship for Mick Felton of Seren

19 June 2014

Mick Felton of independent literary publisher Seren has received a Schwob Publisher Fellowship. As…

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Richard Gwyn, Creative Wales Ambassador, in Mexico

09 May 2014

Richard Gwyn on Octavio Paz in his first dispatch from Mexico: 'Octavio Paz, whose Labyrinth of…

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Successful symposium secures publishing exchange between Wales and China

07 May 2014

The Rice Paper Diaries, Francesca Rhydderch’s first novel will be published in Chinese by Shanghai…

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Celebrating the publication of contemporary Welsh literature in China

30 April 2014

To celebrate the publication of a special Welsh issue of Foreign Literature and Art, a leading…

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