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is a poet, writer, journalist and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. She haspublished twelve volumes of poetry in Afrikaans, two volumes in English, and two non-fiction books: Country of my Skull, which looks at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and A Change of Tongue about the transformation in South Africa after ten years. Her work has been translated into English, Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian and Arabic. Country of my Skull is being widely studied at universities as part of the curriculum dealing with writing about the past. She was also asked to translate the autobiography of Nelson Mandela, ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ into Afrikaans. Antjie Krog has been awarded most of the prestigious awards for non-fiction, translation and poetry available in Afrikaans and English, as well as the Award from the Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture for the year 2000 and the Open Society Prize from the Central European University (previous winners were Jürgen Habermas and Vaclav Havel). |
| is an award-winning poet and playwright. She is the best known and most translated of all modern Welsh-language poets. Author of over twenty books of poetry, children’s novels and educational books, numerous stage, radio and television plays. She has also written libretti for US and UK composers. In 1999, she co-wrote ‘Garden of Light’, a choral symphony for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra which was performed at the Lincoln Centre in New York. She received a Creative Arts Award in 2008 to write a book on ‘Sleep’. Menna is Director of the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at Trinity University, Carmarthen and is Literary Fellow at Swansea University. In April 2010, Sunflowers in your Eyes, an anthology of four Zimbabwean women poets edited by Elfyn, will appear from Cinnamon Press. Recently, she was awarded the International Anima Istranza Foreign Prize for Poetry in Sardinia. |
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was born on a farm in Gower. He was a newspaper reporter in the English Midlands for four years, and then, following a period of travel, studied literature and film at the University of Essex. After working on a circus in the States, he returned to live in Wales in 1976. He has earned his living since then as a writer and lecturer, and co–edited the Academi’s Encyclopaedia of Wales. He has worked as a journalist and has written for the stage. Nigel has also written ’site specific’ poetry for locations in Swansea and elsewhere, and frequently gives public readings of his work; in 1997 he did a reading tour of the States with Menna Elfyn and Iwan Llwyd, and is a member of the blues and poetry trio the Salubrious Rhythm Company. Nigel is Winner of the Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize (1974), Eric Gregory Award (1976), John Morgan Writing Award (1992) and the John Tripp Poetry Slam (1999). His travel book Gwalia in Khasia (Gomer Press, 1995), is an account of Welsh missionaries among the Khasi people of north-east India. It won the Wales Book of the Year award in 1996. Nigel is a Fellow of Academi and one of the editors of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2007). |
| is a poet. He was born in Aberystwyth and is now based in Gwent. Described by U.A. Fanthorpe as “a poet’s poet”, he has published five collections with Seren. His work has been widely anthologised and regularly appears in journals as diverse as Poetry Wales (which he has edited) and the TLS. A selection of his earlier work, The Breath of Sleeping Boys and other poems, appeared from Carreg Gwalch in 2004, in the Corgi Writers of Wales series. Originally a singer–songwriter, he regularly tutors Creative Writing courses at Ty Newydd. He has read and performed at writers’ centres, festivals and universities across the UK and Europe. Awards have included a Gregory Award from the Society of Authors and two Academi ‘Published Writer’ bursaries. His latest collection, Ingrid’s Husband (Seren, 2007), has recently been translated into French by Gérard Augustin and was published by L’Harmattan. Paul Henry currently presents the ‘Inspired’ series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales. He is a Fellow of Academi. |
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is a poet and translator. Born in Colwyn Bay, she studied at Cambridge and Aberystwyth Universities and gained a higher degree in Ireland. She worked for many Welsh institutions before turning to free-lancing. Elin is interested in translating poetry and her translations of Menna Elfyn's work have appeared in many publications. Her own work has also been translated into many languages including Polish and Japanese. Elin was the first bilingual fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Aberystwyth University in 2001/01 and 2003/04. |
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