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Richard Gwyn

Professor Richard Gwyn

Emeritus Professor

School of English, Communication and Philosophy

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Overview

More information about my work as a writer is available on my website, at richardgwyn.me

 

 

Publication

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

  • Gwyn, R. 2008. The color of a dog running away. New York: Anchor Books.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Sexual water: poetry, Dionysus and the aquatic ape. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. J. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 11-24.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Hunger for Salt. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, pp. 25.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Love Story. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 26.

2003

1999

1998

  • Elwyn, G. and Gwyn, R. 1998. Stories we hear and stories we tell... In: Greenhalgh, T. and Hurwitz, B. eds. Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice. London: BMJ Books, pp. 165-175.

Articles

Book sections

  • Gwyn, R. 2019. Border Country. In: Wack, A. ed. Poems from The Borders. Bridgend: Seren, pp. 28.
  • Gwyn, R. 2014. Cómo me convertí en traductor. In: Fondebrider, J. ed. Poetas que traducen poesía. LOM, Santiago, Chile, pp. 55-63.
  • Gwyn, R. 2010. Insomnia. In: The Reader. No. 37. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pp. 13-22.
  • Gwyn, R. 2010. The Handless Maiden. In: Davies, G. ed. Sing, Sorrow, Sorrow : Dark and Chilling Tales. Bridgend: Seren, pp. 59-69.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Sexual water: poetry, Dionysus and the aquatic ape. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. J. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 11-24.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Hunger for Salt. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, pp. 25.
  • Gwyn, R. 2008. Love Story. In: Byron, G. and Sneddon, A. eds. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 26.
  • Elwyn, G. and Gwyn, R. 1998. Stories we hear and stories we tell... In: Greenhalgh, T. and Hurwitz, B. eds. Narrative based medicine: dialogue and discourse in clinical practice. London: BMJ Books, pp. 165-175.

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Biography

I began my academic career as a linguist, and my first academic publications were in the semiotics of illness and medical anthropology. At the same time I was publishing poetry, and in 2003 I transferred from the 'Language and Communication' section of the School to 'English Literature.' In the following years I published two further poetry collections, two anthologies of poetry, three novels, many articles and stories, and a memoir, The Vagabond's Breakfast, which won Wales Book of the Year Award for non-fiction in 2012. In 2024, the year of my retirement from Cardiff, I published a sequel: Ambassador of Nowhere: A Latin American Pilgrimage (2024). 

I also work as a translator from Spanish, and have published a major anthology of Latin American Poetry, The Other Tiger (Seren, 2016) which included poems by 97 poets from 16 countries. Edith Grossman wrote that 'this is a book that belongs in every library . . . the translations are beautiful and to the point.' I have also published collections of poetry by the Argentine poets Joaquín O. Giannuzzi and Jorge Fondebrider. My translations of the Colombian Darío Jaramillo, Impossible Loves (Carcanet) was shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclán in 2020. A selected poems of the Italian-Mexican Fabio Morábito, Invisible Dog is published by Carcanet (2024).