Autumn 2007

Publishing Trade Awards 2007

The winners of this year’s Publishing Trade Awards were announced by the Welsh Books Council at an Awards Dinner in Aberystwyth on Saturday. The Awards ceremony was held at the National Library of Wales as part of the Library’s centenary celebrations and in the presence of Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM, the Minister for Heritage.
During the ceremony, a total of 18 awards for books published in 2005 and 2006, for both Welsh- and English language books, were presented for the bestsellers in various categories.

The two top awards in English, best selling fiction title and non fiction were won by The Colour of a Dog Running away (Parthian) and Imperfectly Natural Woman (Crown House). Parthian would like to pass their congratulations on to Crown House

Our Marketing Director Dominic Williams is off to Frankfurt this October. He will be working with our rights agents Marinella and Tuvia, to consolidate and expand our international distribution. In particular he will be promoting Martha, Jack & Shanco.

Lucy Llewellyn is heading to New York to further promote Parthian in the US. She will be working with internationally renowned photographer Shimon Attie.

The diary of Parthian author Rachel Trezise also takes on a decidedly cosmopolitan feel this autumn. As a result of her collection of short fiction (Fresh Apples, Parthian £6.99) winning the inaugural EDS International Dylan Thomas Prize, Rachel will be reading in Wroclaw, Poland on 18 October as part of the Polish short story festival, Swansea on 30 October and In Copenhagen between 5 and 9 November as promotion for the Danish language edition of her prize-winning collection. To visit rachel's website click here

In June 2007, Parthian author Lloyd Robson went to Sierra Leone to work alongside Kewulay Kamara (ëfinahí poet) and Catherine Fletcher (of the New York-based Endangered Languages Initiative). Lloyd presented a range of Parthian titles including the Library of Wales series to village elders in the Northern Province village of Dankawali, which is attempting to re-establish its public library after it was was destroyed in the civil war. He was presented with two chickens for his troubles! Lloyd has also recently taken part in the Intwasa Festival in Bulawayo. He performed his own work and delivered creative writing workshops for local authors. For more information please click here.

March 2009 sees the publication of a co publication between Parthian and Zimbabwean writers, as part of our exchange programme.

The editor of A Haunting Touch, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, has set up his own website. Entitled Mazwi, it is focusing on promoting African arts, culture, literature and their creative scenes.

Gerry Feehily's first novel Fever is being released in three different locations in three different countries; Cardiff 1st November, Paris 6th November and Dublin 15th November.

The website literature chick is hosting an online Welsh literary festival in America, featuring reviews of many of our books and interviews with several Welsh authors.

Caryl Lewis and Cynan Jones recently held an event at the London Welsh Centre. It was a bilingual event largely aimed at advanced Welsh learners, and the evening was a huge success.

Archive

Summer 2007

Library of Wales series

Rhapsody

Dorothy Edwards

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