A Reading by Siân Melangell Dafydd and Biswamit Dwibedy

Join the AUP Community and the Summer Creative Writing Institute of The American University of Paris for a reading by Siân Melangell Dafydd and Biswamit Dwibedy 

Please register by emailing: bdwibedyaup.edu or sdafyddaup.edu

ABOUT SIÂN MELANGELL DAFYDD:

Siân Melangell Dafydd is an author, poet and translator. Her first published novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing; Gwasg Gomer Press, 2009) won her the coveted National Eisteddfod Literature Medal in 2009. Her latest novel Filò (Gwasg Gomer Press), was published in 2020, and has been selected on The Literature Exchange 2020–21 Bookcase and has been translated into Albanian. She was the last co-editor of the iconic literary magazine, Taliesin. She is currently co-editor of Modron, an ecological online poetry review, a nature columnist for O’r Pedwar Gwynt and a yoga teacher who holds events combining the art of attention, mindful nature bathing, foraging, yoga and writing.

She writes in both Welsh and English and often collaborates with authors, dancers and poets internationally to translate between languages. She works as a lecturer in Creative Writing at the American University of Paris, France and at Bangor University, Wales.

ABOUT BISWAMIT DWIBEDY:

Biswamit Dwibedy teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris. He has also taught creative writing and arts practice at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. He is the author of six collections of poetry (Ozalid, Eirik’s Ocean, Hubble Gardener, MC3, and Ancient Guest) published in India and the United States. In 2012, he edited a dossier of Indian poetry in translation from seven different regional languages for Aufgabe, a literary journal published by Litmus Press, New York. He is also the founder and editor of Anew Print, a small press that publishes limited-edition chapbooks from writers in India and abroad.