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What’s on in Literary Wales?
BayLit Festival Events Listing: To book your tickets call 08700 131812 or for more information call Academi on 029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org For a full events listing visit the Academi website here.
Tuesday 17/04/07
A Night for the Unpublished – Norwegian Church , 7.00 pm. £3, £2. Your MC for the evening will be Lloyd Robson. For more information, or to book your place, call Academi on 029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org.
Friday 20/04/07
Gwyn Thomas and Andrew Motion in Conversation - The National Poet for Wales and Poet Laureate meet for the first time to debate what it is to be an official bard. This is a meeting of two incredible poetic minds not to be missed. Function Room 1, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 7.30 pm. £6, £4.50.
Saturday 21/04/07
Lost in Translation? Welsh and Catalan Translation Workshop - 5 poets, 2 hours, and 2 poems to translate: Welsh to Catalan, Catalan to Welsh. Will they succeed? Aspiring and experienced literary translators are welcome to join in this cultural exchange and contribute to poetry in the making. Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 9:30 am. £4, £3. For more information call Academi on 029 2047 2266 or email post@academi.org. In association with Welsh Literature Abroad and Institute Ramon Llull. This is a Catalan and Welsh-language workshop.
Saturday 21/04/07
Parallel Voices – Welsh and Catalan poetry by Catalan poets Albert Mestres, Francesc Parcerisas and Julia Zabala and Welsh poets Alan Llwyd, Meredid Puw Davies and John Fitzgerald. Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 2:30 pm. Free Admission. This is a Welsh and Catalonian languages presentation.
Saturday 21/04/07
Catalan Connections - Jordi Coca, one of Catalonia’s leading fictional voices and Aneurin Gareth Thomas, a Welshman who has spent the last fifteen years in Spain working as a teacher, writer and translator are interviewed by writer, editor and critic Dr Montserrat Lunati. Seligman Room, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 4.30 pm. £4, £3. In association with Parthian.
Saturday 21/04/07
Wales Book of the Year 2007: Meet the Longlisted Authors – Learn more about the writers behind the masterpieces: English-language authors Daniel G. Williams, Merryn Wiliams and Jeremy Hooker, and Welsh-language authors Catrin Dafydd, Llwyd Owen and Herbert Hughes. Seligman Room, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. English Language Longlist at 7:30 pm, Welsh Language Longlist at 8:30 pm. £4, £3 or £6, £5 for both events.