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: Books:- mostly used to refer to objects of bound paper with covers (covers can be various materials, often card/harder paper)- paper inside the book ("pages") typically contains information about a topic encoded as patterns of ink on them- topics can include someone's notes on a subject, or something intended for wider distribution/other people such as a story/set of stories ("fiction") which did not really occur, or true information ("non-fiction")- cover generally contains art related to the contents, as well as what the book is named ("title") and who wrote it ("author")- the back will often contain a "blurb" describing the contents somewhat, as well as potentially reviews by others
gollark: The inevitability of book is inevitably inevitable.
gollark: I think I've *told* Tux1 about them a few times, so it's their fault.
gollark: I agree completely. The inevitability of apioforms is inevitably inevitable.
gollark: Apioforms have been explained MORE THAN -7 TIMES, if you don't know now it's your own fault.

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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