Gwen Davies (editor)

Gwen Davies (born 1960s) is a Welsh editor and translator. She currently edits the New Welsh Review.

Background

Davies, the youngest of four children in a Welsh-speaking family, was raised in Otley, West Yorkshire, England.[1][2] Her parents were linguists, her father a published Welsh-language poet.[3]

She lives in Aberystwyth with her husband, son and daughter.[2]

Career

Davies' began her first job in 1985 as a writer/editorial assistant on Planet magazine. She later managed the Welsh-language children's publisher, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, before becoming Literature Officer of the Arts Council of Wales in 1995.

Davies was Parthian Books' original fiction editor, working on titles such as Rachel Trezise's Fresh Apples, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006. Davies was also editor of Alcemi Books, the literary fiction imprint of Y Lolfa.

In 2011, Gwen Davies took over as the editor of the New Welsh Review, altering the format and appearance of the magazine and including in it regular illustrations by the freelance designer Jamie Hamley.[1]

gollark: Our cluster management systems just automatically select for productivity.
gollark: See, wage growth cost us capital which could otherwise be fed to our capital generators, so we just use orbital mind control laser backscatter to nondestructively extract neural patterns from arbitrary people, then execute them in parallel at a few thousand times real time speed on our computing clusters.
gollark: We have employees, we don't really *worry* about them.
gollark: We mostly just offload doodling to specialized neural networks.
gollark: You doodle *manually*, even?

References
  1. "A new New Welsh Review". Literature Wales. 2011.
  2. "Gwen Davies". New Welsh Review. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
  3. Judy Darley (12 July 2009). "Gwen Davies of Alcemi Books describes the working relationship between editors and authors". Essential Writers. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.


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