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Edited by Gwen Davies
Featuring Naneh Hovhannisyan, Rhiannon Hooson, Sarah Lerner and Dominika Moravčíková
Literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall.
Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR’s online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country’s key English-language publishers. There’s new work on the Slovak and the migrant experience, with a rural modern fairytale by Slovak author Dominika Moravčíková (in translation by Isabel Stainsby), a family memoir by Armenia-born Naneh Hovhannisyan, and a story from Cardiff dockland by Jewish writer and lawyer, Sarah Lerner. Plus Eric Gregory award-winner Rhiannon Hooson on her nonfiction work-in-progress, Tilth. And mining-themed work, with drawings of the Rhondda by Isabel Alexander, and Ryota Nishi on Japan’s pit closure protest movement.
CONTENTS:
EDITORIAL: Gwen Davies
Cover Story Learning to Fly: Katarina Krištúfková on her photography
'From Obscurity to a Place on the Map of World Literature': Julia Sherwood on how Slovak literature in translation became popular
'Seminars in Gastronomy and Abandoned Gardens': Dado Nagy on his friendship with the late Peter Krištúfek
‘I Wanted Those Feelings Printed On the Page To Be as Raw as Possible’: Imogen Davies in conversation with Nicol Hochholczerová about This Room is Impossible to Eat
Village of Wolves: Story by Dominika Moravčíková, translated by Isabel Stainsby
Nonfiction: Mining
The Making – and Unmanning – of the Welsh Collier: Chris Moss discovers a rich seam of reflections in a comparative history, a repackaged work of nonfiction and an essay collection
Rhondda Mining Community Portraits: Isabel Alexander (images) and Robin Alexander (text)
Wrexham, Capital of Welshness: A Quilt v Hollywood: Chris Moss’ travel writing focuses on ‘undertouristed’ places
'Prisoners, Heroes, Amnesia and ‘Housewifisation’': Ryota Nishi on the history of female miners, and the role of their experience during pit closure in Japan, Wales and the UK
Foremother: Armenian Family Memoir: Naneh V Hovhannisyan
Review essays:
'Shapeshifting': Angharad Penrhyn Jones explores seven recent books that delineate and celebrate women’s lives, in all their waxing, waning phases
'No Welsh Art?': John Barnie surveys a life’s work by art historian Peter Lord at the National Library of Wales
Further fiction:
The Docks: Sarah Lerner
Pitch: Katherine Stansfield
Plus 'Tilth': Rhiannon Hooson on an earthy work in progress
