Rob Mimpriss

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‘Where is the Welsh short story going? Wherever Rob Mimpriss takes it.’ John O’Donoghue. Pugnacious Little Trolls, a new collection of short stories published by Cockatrice Books.
Books: Anthologies. ‘Industry in the Country of the Blind,’ new fiction in Land of Change, radical prose from Wales edited by Gemma Howell and forthcoming from Culture Matters.
Journals: Stories. ‘Traveller M. in the Land of the Cynocephali,’ new fiction just published in Otherwise Engaged: A Literary and Arts Journal 6:2 (Winter 2020).
Books: Fiction. ‘Dark, complex, pensively eloquent’ (Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review) — Reasoning, For His Warriors and Prayer at the End, three short-story collections now published by Cockatrice Books.
Books: Translations. ‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely relevance’ (Jim Perrin). Rob Mimpriss’s new translation of Morgan Llwyd’s allegorical masterpiece, A Book of Three Birds.
Books: Translations. ‘An invaluable translation.’ Angharad Price on Hallowe’en in the Cwm, the short stories of Glasynys, translated by Rob Mimpriss.
Books: Anthologies: ‘this exemplary collaboration’ (Philip Gross). Dangerous Asylums, an anthology of fiction by leading Welsh writers, inspired by Denbigh Mental Hospital, edited by Rob Mimpriss.
Click to read: ‘Quietly written, contemplative... whose powerhouse is the depth of its moral reflection.’ Siân Preece, Rhys Davies Competition on ‘Hamilton Park.’
Latest comment – guest post by A. L. Reynolds. An excerpt from her novel, Of the Ninth Verse, newly published by Cockatrice Books


Second image taken from Leader Live. Video by Danielle Greyman.

‘In scores of countries there is hunger for an order which respects the dignity of each human person, which gives priority to human life in community. There is a thirst for a government which will ensure for every single person and every nation to be what they are: to realise their potential to the full; for an order which fully respects man’s humanity; an order which perceives that man is essentially a social creature, closely woven into the texture of his own society; an order which recognises generously in all its policies that man has a soul and a mind as well as a body...’

Gwynfor Evans, Land of My Fathers: Two Thousand Years of Welsh History. Swansea: John Penry, 1974.

B.A. (Hons), M.A., Ph.D. Member by election of The Welsh Academy.
Author: Pugnacious Little Trolls;
Reasoning: Twenty Stories; For His Warriors: Thirty Stories; Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories.
Editor: Dangerous Asylums: Stories from Denbigh Mental Hospital Told by Leading Welsh Writers.
Contributor: Land of Change (Welsh radical prose edited by Gemma Howell, forthcoming);
Brush with Fate: Voices from Wales (edited and translated into Arabic by Hala Salah Eldin);
Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy (edited by Graëme Harper and Jeri Kroll).
Translator: A Book of Three Birds by Morgan Llwyd;
Hallowe’en in the Cwm by Owen Wynne Jones; Going South by Richard Hughes Williams.
Artistic Convener: North Wales Mental Health Research Project. Editor: Cockatrice Books.

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