The Writers of Wales Database

MEREDITH, CHRISTOPHER

9 Lôn Slwch, Brecon LD3 7RL
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Novelist, poet and translator. Welsh speaker. Christopher was born in Tredegar in 1954, and educated in Tredegar, Aberystwyth and Swansea. He has won the Eric Gregory Award in 1984, Welsh Arts Council Young Writer’s Prize in 1985 and the  Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize in 1989. He is a Reader in Creative Writing at University of Glamorgan and has published three volumes of poetry, three novels, two books for children and one translation of a novel from Welsh. Christopher has also had poems, reviews, articles and stories published in various magazines and anthologies. His collection of poems, The Meaning of Flight (Seren, 2005), was on the Wales Book of the Year 2006 Long List.

Selected Publications:
This (Poetry Wales Press, 1984)
Shifts (Seren, 1988)
Snaring Heaven (Seren, 1990)
Griffri (Seren, 1991)
Shooting a Novelist (Gwasg Gregynog, 1997)
Sidereal Time (Seren, 1998)
Nadolig bob Dydd (Gomer 2000)
The Meaning of Flight (Seren, 2005)
The Story of the Afanc King (Gregynog 2006)
Christmas Every Day (Pont, 2006)

Contributed to:
Melog by Mihangel Morgan (translator) (Seren 2005)
Black Mountains: Poems and images from the Bog–Mawnog Project (sole contributor: poems) (Mulfran Press, 2011)

 

The portrait of Chris featured here is by painter Lorraine Bewsey. It forms part of a twenty–piece collection entitled Portraits of Welsh Writers. Lorraine can be contacted at lorraine@lorrainesartstudio.co.uk
 

Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:

1. Read and discuss own work – poetry and fiction in general
2. Literary translation

AGE RANGE: 15 upwards