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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My translation of Sian Northey's essay now live: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article.... This completes a set of translations from all six extant #Celtic languages. 📚💙 Dyma fy nghyfieithiad o ysgrif Sian, rhan o gasgliad o gyfieithiadau o bob iaith Geltaidd sy'n bodoli heddiw.

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“How Are You?” “I’m Fine.” - Words Without Borders

In this highly personal essay, Welsh writer Sian Northey depicts the undercurrent of climate change anxiety that runs through women’s lives.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It is (and, sorry, it's just called Helm). I've read each narrative thread as a through-story. Now about to re-read it in the order in which it's presented in the book.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And if you zoom in far enough, you can see the Afon Adda in #Bangor getting a mention in the newspaper article. My short poem (7" version) about the Adda is in the Afonydd book; the 12" remix as it were, is here: sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2025/05/09/c...

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Culverted memories: extended mix feat. Tarannon – ’Sgwennu Sue

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Magi Lucy Mattinson @magi-lucy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZP0... Me talking about #translating Yn y Tŷ Hwn by Sian Northey, and Emyr Humphreys talking about translating Y Dydd Olaf by Owain Owain into English. Both of these translated from #Cymraeg #Welsh. Emyr also translates from #português #Portuguese.

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Writing Wales: In Translation

YouTube video by Just Another Poet

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Dim wedi gwrando i'r bennod hon eto, ond bob tro yn adloniadol a difyr.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Look what I spotted in the #Valentines window display of Browsers Bookshop, #Porthmadog, @3timesrebel.bsky.social . "Not exactly a meet-cute", I said to the manager. "No, we embrace all forms of love", she said. 😍

A bookshop window display for Valentine's Day.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

💙📚One of the photos I've just sent to @arachnepress.bsky.social to illustrate my poem about the Afon Adda in #Bangor North #Wales. This river is culverted from source to sea. Bilingual Cymraeg/English anthology 'Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers/ Cerddi Afonydd Cymru' out in May.

Immature herring gull standing on an expanse of tarmac with modern buildings and signposts behind.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If you're involved with a #plygain service this Christmas, and you want a translation of a plygain carol that's singable in English, here's a translation into English I did a few years back of ‘Gwêl yr Adeilad', fitted to the tune. sgwennusue.sueproof.wales/2018/03/09/b...

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Behold Creation – ’Sgwennu Sue

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's that day again. Wrote this #OTD in 2019, dreading the next day's UK general election. @oldenoughtosay.bsky.social , you might like this.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's as good as this old meme chestnut; Welsh reads: 'I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.'

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

📚💙Ydych chi'n gwrando ar bodlediad misol Colli'r Plot? Trafodaeth ddifyr am y byd sgwennu a llyfrau bob tro, ar ben adolygon llyfrau yn y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg gan 5 awdur profiadol. Good listening for #Cymraeg learners too. ypod.cymru/podlediadau/...

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Y Pod - Colli'r Plot

Colli'r Plot gyda Bethan Gwanas, Dafydd Llewelyn, Siân Northey a Manon Steffan Ros. <br /><br />Pedwar awdur sy'n bustachu efo plotiau yn gyson ac yn aml yn ei cholli hi.<br /><br />Fe fydd yna lot o ...

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

📚💙And on the subject of #food in #fiction, my package of #bookclub / #readinggroup extras for readers of This House gives the #recipe for the lush Tante Adèle’s Pudding, and an interesting way of cooking green beans. saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/ @3timesrebel.bsky.social

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Extras - Saesneg Sue

A package of extras for reading groups to use with This House: discussion points, extra info about music, poetry and place, and recipes!

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

📚💙Anyone hear today's Food Programme on Radio 4, about descriptions of food in children's fiction? Worth a listen on Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/....

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The Food Programme - Once Upon a Mealtime - BBC Sounds

Sheila Dillon explores how leading children's writers depict food in their books.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

the-toast.net/2016/03/22/e... Thanks to Sam Jordison of Galley Beggar Press, who was our guide through six novels on a Critical Reading, Critical Writing course. Wuthering Heights was one of them.

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Every Meal In Wuthering Heights Ranked In Order Of Sadness -The Toast

A willing foe, and sea room.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

📚💙Do you run a #book / #reading club or group? Are you a member of one? (Or maybe you're an individual who likes to read more about a book.) Here's my latest blog post – a special extra one to complement the experience of reading This House. saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/extras/

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

The failing exams from not working hard enough sort of loser. It all worked out later: got a distinction for my MSc at 34.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

📚💙 Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny. Sorry to tell you, Big Bearded Bookseller, I didn't buy it from a bookseller – I got it at a charity stall in a church porch. Proceeds for the upkeep of the church roof, or some such. ⛪

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

💙📚 saesnegsue.sueproof.wales/p-day/ New blog post! This blog is documenting being a mentored early-career literary translator. #TranslationTuesday #Translation #AmTranslating

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

I'm reading Turning Tide by Jon Gower. So far, it's not quite as good as I thought it would be.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Congratulations! As of this week I've been working for myself for 16 years.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Thank you – it is exciting. This is the translation I was mentored to do, and it's the first translation I've had to find a publisher for. All my others were commissioned without pitching.

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Announcing the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023! "This year’s eclectic shortlist travels far and wide – not only in the cultural and linguistic background of the authors chosen but in the genres and forms they use." tinyurl.com/wu8uh7v4

A photograph of the eight titles shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2023. The books are stacked on their side on a white table against a white background.

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Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Hello! New year, new social media platform. Also new book coming out in March 2024: my first adult literary #translation. #amtranslating

Book cover. Large text reading Sian Northey This House below a drawing of the upper body of a woman, seated, with a balloon.

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