Dr Christine James, senior lecturer in Welsh at Swansea University, has been invited to become a Fellow of the Academi – the Welsh National Literary promotion agency and society for authors.
Fellowships are limited to those who have made an exceptional contribution to literature in Wales and are only very rarely offered.
“I consider this Fellowship to be a great honour,” said Dr James.
“I’m very grateful to the Academi for extending such a privilege to me.”
Dr Christine James was invited to become a Fellow of the Academi at the same time as the novelist Manon Rhys, who was co-editor of Wales’s foremost literary journal Taliesin with her for the last 10 years.
During this period Dr James achieved many other national successes such as winning the Crown at the 2005 National Eisteddfod, winning the Féile Filíochta international poetry competition in 2006, and she was poet in residence at Y Lle Celf, the National Eisteddfod’s renowed visual arts exhibition, in 2008.
Dr James’s academic achievements include an edition of the complete poems of Gwenallt as well as studies on many aspects of Welsh literature and culture during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
For further information on the Department of Welsh at Swansea University, visit http://www.swansea.ac.uk/cymraeg/.
