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Julian preece and chris keil talk to gwen davies at hay festival
Gwen Davies (born 1960s) is a Welsh editor and translator.
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Background
Davies, the youngest of four children in a Welsh-speaking family, was raised in Otley, West Yorkshire, England. Her parents were linguists, her father a published Welsh-language poet.
She lives in Aberystwyth with her husband and teenage son and daughter.
Career
Davies' began her first job in 1985 as a writer/editorial assistant on Planet magazine. She later managed the Welsh-language children's publisher, Cymdeithas Lyfrau Ceredigion, before becoming Literature Officer of the Arts Council of Wales in 1995.
She was Parthian Books' original fiction editor, working on notable titles such as Rachel Trezise's Fresh Apples, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Davies was also editor of Alcemi Books, the literary fiction imprint of Y Lolfa. In 2011, she became the new editor of the New Welsh Review in 2011, bringing a fresh look to the magazine, which includes illustrations by the freelance designer Jamie Hamley.