Books Books
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Short Stories
Number of pages: 260
ISBN: 9781854115508
Publication date: November 4, 2011
Price: £8.99
Category: Ebooks, Fiction, Short Stories
Number of pages: 260
ISBN: 9781854115645
Publication date: November 4, 2011
Price: £7.19
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The Keys of Babylon was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2012 and long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2012
A story from this collection ‘El Aziz: some pages from his notebooks’ was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012
“Minhinnick’s powerful work has an epic quality.” The Independent
“An award-winning poet, Minhinnick’s prose holds all the vividness, imagery and style of poetry, creating absorbing narratives that capture the very essence of the migrants’ experiences.” Buzz Magazine
People are on the move In Albania, Mexico, China, Iraq, Israel, Wales, the US, London … migration and immigration are key issues of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
The Keys of Babylon is a collection of 15 linked stories by award-winning poet and author Robert Minhinnick, giving voices to migrants around the globe. Both a fictional record of, and an exploration into their lives, the migrants and the people with whom they interact reflect a comprehensive mix of hope, success, failure, fear, indifference and passion. And the stories of each of the main characters are drawn together in a final narrative which surveys their situation on a particular day.
Robert Minhinnick
Robert Minhinnick is one of Wales’ (some would say Britain’s) most eminent writers. He is a multi-prizewinning poet, essayist and novelist; his most recent poetry collection was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2017 and won Wales Book of the Year, which he has won three times. Two of his novels have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. He edited Poetry Wales for ten years. Minhinnick is also an environmentalist and founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru and Sustainable Wales who has written extensively on the environment.
His debut novel Sea Holly (2007) was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2008. Robert’s second novel Limestone Man (2015) is a gripping story of a man who tries to connect past and present yet is haunted by dreams of Australia and his youth. His novel Nia was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019
He edited Gorwelion: Shared Horizons (2021) a book of essays about climate change. His latest non-fiction book Delirium was published by Seren (2021).
