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Wiliam Owen Roberts was born in 1960 and educated at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. His first novel Bingo! His second novel Y Pla (Pestilence; 1987) won the Welsh Arts Council Literature prize in 1988 and was subsequently translated into 10 languages.

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Paris (2013) is William Roberts' most ambitious work to date and can best be described as a contemporary historical vel. It concerns an extended family of Russian emigres struggling to survive in Paris and Berlin during the inter-war years of the last century and examines the difficulty of holding on to one's identity in exile. As the waves of political and ideological turmoil impinge directly on the fate of the characters, we see some of them adapt and flourish despite the hostile environment whilst others are destroyed. Referencing European and Russian prose, both Realist and Modernist, the style nevertheless is that of a quintessentially Welsh sensibility; with a rich mosaic of linguistic influences such as the Mabigion, 16C, and 17C Classical Welsh language writers, as well as 21C Welsh dialect and slang. The result is a highly invative hybrid style, which gives the vel its unique voice.Paris, whilst ostensibly a historical vel, examines themes of crucial contemporary relevance: migration, exile, displacement, and identity. Crossing borders, whether from choice or necessity, is a central feature of the vel.Roberts explores the experience of 'the Other', which in this case, is what it means to be a Welsh speaker. He extrapolates the Welsh condition of internal exile: loss of language, loss of culture, loss of identity to a European, historical setting in order to force his Welsh readers to confront their own predicament from a different historical perspective.

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Parthian Books
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9781910901816
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Wiliam Owen Roberts was born in 1960 and educated at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He worked for various theatre companies before joining HTV as a script editor in 1984. Since 1989 he has been a full-time writer and has written extensively for theatre, television, radio and film. His first novel Bingo! (1985) was described as the first postmodernist novel in Welsh. His second novel Y Pla (Pestilence; 1987) won the Welsh Arts Council Literature prize in 1988 and was subsequently translated into 10 languages. His third novel Paradwys (Paradise; 2001 was set on an imaginary Carribean island on the eve of the French Revolution and was short listed for the Welsh Book of the Year Award in 2002. Petrograd (2008) won the Welsh Book of the Year Award and the ITV Wales Readers Choice Award in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy.

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