Cerdded Mewn Cell

by Robin Llywelyn

Casgliad o straeon byrion gogleisiol a ffraeth gan un o awduron mwyaf adnabyddus Cymru. Dyma gyfrol gyntaf Robin Llywelyn yn Gymraeg ers cyhoeddi'r casgliad o straeon, Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd yn 1995. A collection of short stories by one of Wales's most renowned living authors. Robin Llywelyn has won some of Wales's greatest prizes for literature.

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2018

About the author

Robin Llywelyn was born in 1958 in Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, Wales. He studied Welsh and Irish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and has been the managing director of Portmeirion Ltd., which runs the Italianate village in Wales built by his grandfather, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis.

He is the author of three novels in Welsh: Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn (1992), a fantasy story of three unlikely heroes, and winner of the 1992 National Eisteddfod of Wales prose medal and the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; O'r Harbwr Gwag i'r Cefnfor Gwyn (1994), winner of the 1994 Eisteddfod of Wales Prose Medal and BBC Writer of the Year Award; and Un Diwrnod yn yr Eisteddfod (2004), winner of the National Eisteddfod Daniel Owen Prize. He has also written a collection of short stories, Y Dŵr Mawr Llwyd (1993).

Two of his novels have been translated into English as White Star, Bright Sky (1992) and From Empty Harbour to White Ocean (1996). The former has also been translated into French as Étoile Blanche sur Fond Blanc (2003) and the latter into Italian, Da Porto Deserto a Bianco Oceano (2000).

Reviews

[Dewi Pritchard]

Casgliad clyfar o storïau sy’n plethu i’w gilydd. Mae’r rhan fwyaf yn dilyn patrwm ac iaith arferol Robin Llywelyn, sy’n llawn o ddywediadau a clichés bwriadol ym taro’n eu gilydd. Mae tair stori arbennig yma: stori dylwyth teg Y Blaidd Llwyd, hanes y duwiau yn Byd Newydd Eric a’r Stori a Ddiflannodd anhygoel. Mae ei ffordd o ysgogi teimladau heb wybod yn iawn beth sy’n digwydd yn ogystal a’i chyffyrddiad ysgafn ac un o nofelau gorau Cymru yn feistrolgar. Yn ogystal ac ysgrifenwyr abswrd dwyrain Ewrop mae Robin Llywelyn yn ein hatgoffa o’r archentwraig Mariana Enriquez neu hyd yn oed Gabriel Garcia Marquez ar adegau.