University of Glamorgan

Prof Chris Meredith

Professor of Creative Writing
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Tel +44 (0)1443 482854
Room: Forest Hall 103

About

Christopher Meredith is a novelist, poet and translator, as well as doing a little writing for radio and the stage, and articles and reviews, fiction and verse for many magazines. He is the Subject Leader for undergraduate Creative Writing at Glamorgan and teaches on the Masters course. Prizes include an Eric Gregory Award, the Arts Council of Wales Young Writer Prize and the Fiction Prize for his first novel, Shifts, which, regarded as a contemporary classic, has remained in print ever since its first publication in 1988. His second novel, Griffri was shortlisted for the Book of the Year Award in 1992. He has received two Arts Council Bursaries and has been judge for the Book of the Year Award and the Roland Mathias Prize. His most recent collection of poems , The Meaning of Flight, was long-listed for the Book of the Year Award 2006. Chris has given readings of his work all over Britain aswell as in the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Israel/Palestine and the USA.

Selected Publications

Poetry:

This, Poetry Wales Press, 1984
Snaring Heaven, Seren, 1990
The Meaning of Flight, Seren, 2005

Novels:

Shifts, Seren, 1988, reprinted 1990, 1997, 2005
Griffri, Seren, 1991, revised addition, 1994. Published in French translation 2002
Sidereal Time, Seren, 1998

For Children:

Nadolig bob Dydd, Gomer, 2000, reprinted 2005
Christmas Every Day, Pont Books, 2006

Short Fction:

The Story of the Afanc King & the Sons of Teyrnon (with etched linocuts by Sara Philpott), Gregynog, 2006

Non-Fiction:

Cefn Golau: Shooting a Novelist (with a linocut by Sara Philpott), Gregynog Press, 1996

As Editor:

Re-imaging Wales (co-edited with Tony Curtis; a special number of the Literary Review), Fairleigh Dickinson University USA, 2001
Five essays on translation (co-edited with Katja Krebs) University of Glamorgan, 2005
Moment of Earth: Poems & Essays in Honour of Jeremy Hooker, Celtic Studies Publications, Aberystwyth, 2007

Translation from Welsh:

Melog (a novel by Mihangel Morgan), Seren, 2005