Literature from Wales
I’ve come to the conclusion that I should do more to support authors from my home country, many of whom are unknown yet worth getting to know. Readers seem more familiar with authors from Scotland and Ireland than with writers from Wales. I’m going to use this page to try and remedy that. This page will be a series of links to reviews and posts featuring authors from Wales.
Reviews (in alphabetical order of author surname)
- Belinda Bauer: Blacklands
- Carys Davies: Redemption of Galen Pike
- Rebecca Griffiths: The Primrose Path
- Dylan Jones: Anglesey Blue
- Jack Jones: Off to Philadelphia in the Morning
- Bernice Rubens: The Elected Member
- Owen Sheers: Resistance
- Gwyn Thomas: The Alone to the Alone
- Jonathan Tulloch: Larkinland
- Louise Walsh: Black River
- Sarah Waters: The Paying Guests
Writing Wales posts
- An interview with Editor and publisher Caroline Oakley of Honno Press in which she considers whether literary prizes are important. Caroline’s interview is available here.
- Booker Talk reflects on the idea of the Great Welsh Novel. Read the article here
- Good reads from Wales
- Authors from Wales
- 10 Authors to read from Wales
- A Visit to Dylan Thomas’ writing shed
- Do authors have shelf lives?
- A Secret Literary Giant from Wales
- The Greatest Welsh novel?
- Q&A with Dylan Jones, author of Anglesey Blue
Yay, I’m pleased to see I’ve read one of these titles, (The Elected Member) and also one of the authors (Sarah Waters). In fact I’ve just finished another one of hers and am trying to work out how to write the review…
I’m sure I’ve read more Welsh authors than that, but *blush* I haven’t been tracking them separately, just all together with the Scots and the Poms under ‘Britain’. I might get round to fixing that one day, but my current ‘blog improvement’ project is to identify the settings of all the novels I’ve read, and it’s taking forever so I’m not starting anything new till that’s finished!
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That sounds like a tough project given the number of books you’ve read. The results will be interesting though – probably find some trends there
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