List Of Writers
NISBET, ROBERT
Tiree, 9 Scarrowscant Lane, Haverfordwest SA61 1EP
Tel: (01437) 763511
Email: merlin1941@btinternet.com
Short–story writer. Freelance creative writing tutor, working mainly for Trinity College, Carmarthen and the WEA. Writer in residence, Llangatwg School, Neath in 1999. Robert taught English for 30 years in grammar and comprehensive schools and is now an associate lecturer in creative writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen. He now has 100 short stories published. His work has appeared regularly in Planet, Anglo-Welsh Review, New Welsh Review, Cambrensis and Blue Tattoo, in American literary quarterlies like Webster Review and New England Review, on BBC Radio 4, and in translation in Germany and Romania. His book Sounds of the Town (Alun Books, 1982) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award in 1983. A lifelong supporter of Haverfordwest Football Club, Robert is now their press officer.
Reviews:
"…I think of Frank O’Connor … Robert Nisbet’s work merits comparison on that level. There is the same tenderness, the same compassionate understanding. I consider him the most affecting Anglo-Welsh short story writer that we have…"
Martin Haslehurst, Anglo-Welsh Review
"…South Pembrokeshire is fortunate in having so sensitive, so dedicated and so sane a chronicler..."
Glyn Jones, BWA (Welsh Academy)
"... an evocation of the inner life within and behind the detail .. a celebration of the richness of the ordinary by an out of the ordinary writer..."
John Stuart Williams, New Welsh Review
"...(one of) the most accomplished writers of short stories in Wales today..."
Meic Stephens, Western Mail
"...There is no-one to touch him as a recorder of small-town life..."
Herbert Williams, SWAGMAG
"...He is Wales’ fictional laureate of small town life..."
Dewi Roberts, Welsh Books Council
"...Wales’ greatest contemporary exponent of the (short-story) form..."
Peter Finch, Western Mail
Selected Publications:
Sounds of the Town (Alun Books, 1982)
Downmarket (Alun Books, 1988)
The Ladybird Room (Alun Books, 1991)
Entertaining Sally Ann (Alun Books, 1997)
Downtrain (Parthian, 2004)
Contributed to:
Magpies: Short Stories From Wales (editor) (Gomer, 2000)
Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work
2. Writing workshops
3. Dylan Thomas’s prose