All Blog Posts Tagged 'literature' (7)

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Welsh writers were out in force at the recent Hay Literature Festival beating off TV cooks and broken down politicians for the attention of enthusiastic

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Author Octavius Pitt (a pen name) has led a fascinating life; from the very beginning in fact. He was almost born prematurely in late 1944, when a German V2 rocket took the roof from his parents’ semi in London, leaving his mother sitting half way down the stairs surrounded by rubble and a tiny baby in her arms. No it was not him yet, a little girl from two doors down; left by her mother whilst she helped lift the front door out from the kitchen. Symbolically, the very last day a V2 rocket fe

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Ceri and I and a couple of our other members are on goodreads.com and we started an Anglo-Welsh literature group. Good reads is a networking site about books and reading - you log books you've read or are reading and can rate them and write reviews and get recommendations from other people. You can also make book groups or genre or subjects and discuss them. There doesn't appear to be any groups on there on Wales, Welsh literature or Welsh authors. Ceri started the Anglo-Welsh literature group… Continue

( This article was originally contributed to Manuel Marino's Arts Weblog. Reviews of some of the authors and works mentioned in the article can be found on the Americymru Book Reviews pages.) As a Welsh ex-pat currently residing in the USA I have noticed a profound disparity between the notion of Wales that many Americans of Welsh descent entertain and the reality that I left behind five years ago. Nowhere is this more evide… Continue