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Parthian Books
Parthian Books is an independent publisher based in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Cardigan, Wales. Editorially-led, it publishes a range of contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, art books, Translation, literature in translation, and non-fiction. Since its foundation in 1993, Parthian has published some of the best-known works of contemporary Welsh literature including ''Work, Sex and Rugby'' (1993) by Lewis Davies, ''In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl'' (2000) by Rachel Trezise, ''Crawling Through Thorns'' (2008) by John Sam Jones, ''Pigeon'' (2017) by Alys Conran, and ''Hello Friend We Missed You'' (2020) by Richard Owain Roberts. It is involved in the European literary scene and has also published celebrity autobiography, autobiographies, such as Griff Rhys Jones' ''Insufficiently Welsh'' and Boyd Clack's ''Kisses Sweeter Than Wine''. In 2019, Parthian was recognised as the Small Press of the Year for Wales at the "Nibbies", the British Book Awards. Parthian's motto is "A Carnival of Voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parthian
Parthian may refer to: Historical * Parthian people * A demonym "of Parthia", a region of north-eastern of Greater Iran * Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD) * Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language * Parthian shot, an archery skill famously employed by Parthian horsemen * Pahlavas, the Parthians in ancient Indian literature ** Pahlava kingdom, their kingdom as known to the Indians Other uses * Parthian Books, a Welsh publishing house * Indo-Parthian kingdoms * ''Parthian''-class submarine * Seven Parthian clans See also * Parthia (other) * Pahlavi (other) Pahlavi may refer to: Iranian royalty *Seven Parthian clans, ruling Parthian families during the Sasanian Empire *Pahlavi dynasty, the ruling house of Imperial State of Persia/Iran from 1925 until 1979 **Reza Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944 ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Clack
Boyd Daniel Clack (born 7 March 1951) is a Canadian-born Welsh writer, actor, and musician. He was born in Vancouver, Canada to Welsh parents. At a young age, he emigrated with his family to Wales, where he grew up in Tonyrefail, where his family were originally from. His acting credits include '' Twin Town'', '' High Hopes'', and ''Satellite City'', the latter two of which he also co-wrote. He has also released the first part of his autobiography ''Kisses Sweeter than Wine'', and two music albums, '' Welsh Bitter'' and '' Labourer of Love''. Clack is a supporter of Welsh independence and attended a pro-independence rally in Merthyr Tydfil in September 2019, organised by AUOB Cymru. "I have always favoured Welsh Independence because every country should be independent," he said. "The opposite of independent after all is dependent and to be dependent on anyone or an organisation where that dependence isn't based on love, kindness and genuine care is demeaning." At the 2019 ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Griffiths
Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales. His works include the novels ''Grits'' and ''Sheepshagger'', travel guides to Aberystwyth and Liverpool, and a book of poetry. He has won the Wales Book of the Year award twice, for ''Stump'' in 2004 and ''Broken Ghost'' in 2020. Life Griffiths was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, but had a long family link to Welsh roots in West Wales. As a nine-year-old boy Griffiths found a second-hand copy of a novel by Rhondda writer Ron Berry in a junk shop. Berry, who wrote from the viewpoint of the industrial working class, but in a more earthy and centred style than many of his more celebrated peers, "spoke" to Griffiths who was captured by the language and style of the writing. In future years Griffiths continued to cite Berry as a major influence, along with writers Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr. In 1976 his family emigrated to Australia, but returned three years later aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevie Davies
Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, and is also a fellow of the Welsh Academy. Her novel '' The Element of Water'' was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, and won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002. Early life Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, England, but lived in Wales from when she was a week old. The Davies family lived in Morriston, a large town located within the city of Swansea. The only child of an RAF officer, Davies left Wales at the age of two and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Germany and Scotland in the 1950s. After studying at the University of Manchester, Davies went on to lecture in the English department there. Career Davies has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. Her non-fiction work includes titles on the Brontë family, John Milton and Henry Vaughan. Davies' first novel, ''Boy Blue'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonora Brito
Leonora Brito (7 July 1954 – 14 June 2007) was a Welsh writer from Cardiff, Wales. Biography Brito was born in Cardiff on 7 July 1954. She studied Law and History at Cardiff University. In 1991 she won the Rhys Davies Short Story Prize. Her first short story collection, ''Dat's Love'' (1995), was published by Seren Books and was described by ''Publishers Weekly'' as combining 'an unexpected setting (the Caribbean community in Wales) with some truly fresh writing'. In an article for ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'', Gary Younge states that 'with the exception of Leonora Brito's ''Dat's Love'', the literary voices of blacks and Asians in Wales are rarely heard.' Michelle Deininger includes Brito in a group of short-story writers of the 1980s a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siân James (novelist)
Siân James (20 September 1930 – 21 July 2021) was a Welsh novelist, academic and translator, who wrote in English. Her third novel, '' A Small Country'', is seen as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature. Her 1996 short-story collection '' Not Singing Exactly'' won the English-language category in Wales Book of the Year, the first book by a woman to do so. Birth and academic posts James, born in Coed-y-bryn in Ceredigion, attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and of the Welsh Academy. She taught on the University of Glamorgan's Masters' degree in Creative Writing. She was later awarded an honorary doctorate by the university for her contribution to literature in Wales. Writing career Siân James twice won the ''Yorkshire Post'' Prize, for her first and second novels ''One Afternoon'' and ''Yesterday''. ''One Afternoon'' was republished in 2023. Her third novel ''A Small Country'', has come to be regarded as a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alun Richards
Alun Morgun Richards (27 October 1929 – 2 June 2004) was a Welsh novelist, best known for his novel '' Ennal's Point'', about the work of a lifeboat crew in South Wales. Richards was born in King Edward Avenue, Caerphilly. He was educated at Pontypridd Grammar School and the University College of Wales. After training to be a teacher Richards joined the Royal Navy which sparked a fascination with the sea that inspired much of his writing. In 1955, he returned to Wales from London but became ill with tuberculosis and was admitted to the sanatorium at Talgarth. After two years he was released and married Helen Howden, a probation officer, with whom he had three sons and a daughter. He taught English for 10 years and settled in Mumbles, Swansea, which provided the backdrop for much of his writing. As well as novels and short stories, he wrote extensively for theatre and television, including several episodes of ''The Onedin Line''. A connoisseur of rugby union, Richards publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Francis
Karl Francis (born 1 April 1942) is a Welsh film and television director, producer and screenwriter, associated with left-wing political causes. His work has included output in both English and Welsh. Biography Francis was born in Bedwas in South Wales. He won a scholarship which allowed him to study at Manchester University where he gained his BA in 1964. He then attended Hornsey College of Art to study for a post-graduate diploma on Film in Education. He began his media career in television in 1971, first as an independent investigator, before taking a production post with ITV, working on '' Weekend World'' for London Weekend Television. In 1973 he switched to the BBC and produced programmes such as ''2nd House''. In 1977 he wrote, produced and directed the docu-drama '' Above us the Earth''. The film, shot in the spring and summer of 1975, records the closure of the Ogilvie colliery in the Rhymney Valley and the effect on the miners and the larger community. The film use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Llywelyn
Robin Llywelyn (born 24 November 1958) is a Welsh novelist, writing in both Welsh and English. His works include ''From Empty Harbour to White Ocean'', winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal. He is also the managing director of Portmeirion Ltd which runs the Italianate village of Portmeirion built by his grandfather Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. Llywelyn was born in Llanfrothen and was educated at University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University () is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across three academic facul ..., where he studied Welsh and Irish. Llywelyn has written three novels in Welsh; ''Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn'' (1992), which won the 1992 National Eisteddfod of Wales prose medal and the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; ''O'r Harbwr Gwag i'r Cefnfor Gwyn'' (1994), winner of the 1994 Eisteddf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vale Of Neath
The Vale of Neath (or Neath Valley, Welsh: ''Cwm Nedd''), one of the South Wales Valleys, encompasses the upper reaches of the River Neath in southwest Wales. In addition to the River Neath, it is traversed by the Neath Canal and the A465 dual carriageway. Settlements in the valley include Neath, Cadoxton, Tonna, Aberdulais, Resolven, Blaengwrach, Glynneath and Pontneddfechan. Coal mining was an industry in the valley with mining operations being located at Aberpergwm and Pentreclwydau near Glynneath. Waterfall Country " Waterfall Country" is a nickname given to the Vale of Neath due to the diverse number of waterfalls in the valley. In the upper reaches of the valley, at the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, are the waterfalls of four or five rivers: the Afon Hepste, Nedd Fechan, Afon Pyrddin, Afon Mellte and Afon Sychryd. In the lower valley, waterfalls can be found at Melincourt and Aberdulais. Vale of Neath Railway Currently partly used as a goods line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neath
Neath (; ) is a market town and Community (Wales), community situated in the Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a population of 19,258 in 2011. Historic counties of Wales, Historically in Glamorgan, the town is located on the River Neath, east-northeast of Swansea. Etymology The town's English name ultimately derives from "" the original Welsh name for the River Neath and is known to be Proto-Celtic language, Celtic or Pre-Celtic. A meaning of 'shining' or 'brilliant' has been suggested, as has a link to the older Indo-European root (simply meaning 'river'). As such, the town may share its etymology with the town of Stratton, Cornwall and the River Nidd in Northern England. History Roman fort The town is located at a ford (crossing), ford of the River Neath and its strategic situation is evident by a number of Celts, Celtic hill forts, surrounding the town. The Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Eisteddfod Of Wales
The National Eisteddfod of Wales ( Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. Competitors typically number 6,000 or more, and overall attendance generally exceeds 100,000 visitors, the highest recently being 186,000 attending the 2024 festival in Pontypridd. The 2018 Eisteddfod was held in Cardiff Bay Cardiff Bay (; colloquially "The Bay") is an area and freshwater lake in Cardiff, Wales. The site of a former tidal bay and estuary, it is the river mouth of the River Taff and River Ely, Ely. The body of water was converted into a lake as part ... with a fence-free 'Maes (eisteddfod), Maes'. In 2020, the event was held virtually under the name AmGen; events were held over a one-week period. History The National Museum of Wales says that "the history of the Eisteddfod may [be] traced back to 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
