Welsh writers have been given a prominent platform at this year's Hay Festival. The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and ...

Fourteen writers have been longlisted by literary magazine New Welsh Review for this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. The short-form writing contest, now in its fifth year, will see books compete for ...

An account of a young woman’s experience of anorexia while at Oxford University and a story about an idyllic world populated by archetypes who will help us heal and learn have been honoured by the New ...

One of Wales’s best literary critics, Glyn Tegai Hughes combined a profound knowledge of writing in the Welsh language with a keen interest in the literature of Germany and Switzerland, especially ...

Welsh writers have been given a prominent platform at this year's Hay Festival. The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and ...

Winter keeps Irvine Welsh writing. "In Scotland, the winters are so horrible that I just want to stay indoors and write. JAIPUR: Winter keeps Irvine Welsh writing. "In Scotland, the winters are so ...

The biggest history of Welsh literature, exploring 15 centuries of Welsh writing, is published this week. The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature has been edited by Professor Helen Fulton, Chair of ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is penning a TV drama about the true-life story of two Manchester brothers who built a fashion empire on the back of the city's acid house scene. The novelist has ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is currently enjoying a resurgence of his most famous novel thanks to Danny Boyle's film sequel T2: Trainspotting (which was loosely based on Welsh's follow-up novel ...