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Kate Roberts

    13. Februar 1891 – 14. April 1985

    Kate Roberts zählt zu den bedeutendsten walisischsprachigen Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, berühmt für ihre fesselnden Kurzgeschichten und Romane. Ihre Werke schöpfen aus dem Hintergrund des armen Gesellschaftsmilieus Nordwales und beleuchten das unauffällige Leben einfacher Menschen, ihren Kampf gegen Armut und Enttäuschungen. Roberts thematisiert meisterhaft die Rolle der Frau in der Gesellschaft sowie fortschrittliche Lebens- und Liebesvorstellungen. Ihre Prosa zeichnet sich durch sprachlichen Reichtum und tiefen Einblick aus, was sie zu einer herausragenden literarischen Stimme macht.

    Minnesota 150
    The Awakening
    One Bright Morning
    Tea in the Heather
    Der Schatz
    Katzen auf einer Versteigerung
    • 'Der Stein war warm von der Sonne, und es war ein schönes Gefühl, als eine nackte Stelle ihres Beins den Stein berührte' – feine, exakte Beobachtungen zeichnen die Geschichten der großen walisischen Dichterin Kate Roberts aus. Die zwischen 1924 und 1965 entstandenen Erzählungen kreisen um die Eigenheiten, Gefühle und Bedürfnisse der Bewohner des vom Bergbau geprägten nördlichen Wales in der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Dabei gewinnen alltägliche, einfache Handlungen eine tiefe Bedeutung. Neben Geschichten von kleinen Freiheiten und großer Einsamkeit und einem Kapitel aus der Autobiografie von Kate Roberts umfasst dieser Band einen Erzählzyklus rund um die Freuden und Kümmernisse der vierjährigen Begw, die lernt, damit zurechtzukommen, dass ihre Katze Sgiatan ertränkt und ihr Lieblingspudding von der verwahrlosten, älteren Göre Winni Ffinni Hadog verschlungen wird. Winni, die ständig flucht, keinen Unterrock trägt und wild auf der Heide herumtanzt, begehrt auf gegen die Regeln der streng pietistischen, ländlichen Gemeinschaft, und die kleine Begw fühlt sich wie magisch von ihr angezogen. Es entsteht eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft.

      Der Schatz
    • Tea in the Heather

      • 85 Seiten
      • 3 Lesestunden
      3,0(2)Abgeben

      Set in the hill-farms and slate quarries of Gwynedd, the story follows the childhood of Begw Gruffydd, a girl navigating friendships, rivalries, and the complexities of adult interactions from ages four to nine. Kate Roberts captures the essence of childhood with vivid detail and authentic dialogue, portraying a world filled with small joys and disappointments. The novel reflects the author's deep roots in Welsh culture and her significant impact on Welsh-language literature, translated by Wynn Griffith.

      Tea in the Heather
    • One Bright Morning

      • 263 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,7(6)Abgeben

      A lyrical, evocative translation by poet Gillian clarke of a classic Welsh novel by Kate Roberts, Tegwch y Bore. -- Gwasg Gomer

      One Bright Morning
    • The Awakening

      • 280 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,8(30)Abgeben

      Kate Roberts wrote this novel in 1956, but the background is the immediate post 1939-45 war period. Like all the novelist’s works, it is set in the slate quarrying areas of Arfon where she was born and grew up. Although there is unhappiness, poverty, illness and jealousy here, it is a positive novel with friendship, kindness and love much in evidence.The main character is a woman called Lora Ffennig. This is typical of the author’s work. All her novels deal with women’s trials and tribulations. Lora Ffennig has two children and is an efficient, well-organised wife. Suddenly, without any warning, she learns that her husband has run away with another woman. We follow her plight for the first year, coping with one problem after another.By the end of the year, Lora Ffennig feels that she was asleep before the nightmare of losing her husband, but that she is now fully awake. She has learned that all may not always be as they appear. She now knows who her friends are, but people change, nothing is permanent. She alone can take responsibility for her own and her children’s lives.

      The Awakening
    • Minnesota 150

      • 224 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden
      3,8(21)Abgeben

      The people have spoken. Minnesota wouldn't be Minnesota without Bob Dylan. Or the BWCA. Immigrant farmers. The American Indian Movement. Thousands of citizens nominated their favorite topics for inclusion in Minnesota 150. With short essays, eye-catching illustrations, and text from the winning nominations, Kate Roberts reveals the many ways in which our past becomes our collective history.Read stories from people like former Iron Ranger Brian Weber, who wrote about watching the 1980 Olympic hockey team as a young "It makes me think of our neighbor, a miner with a very Finnish last name, who watched all the games with us. Thinking about it now, after the taconite expansion of the early to mid-1970s, this was the beginning of the end for the mines up there. And I think they knew it. But they felt they had a hockey team and a coach that was fighting for us. And hockey mattered." Learn about the genesis of such iconic businesses as the Greyhound Bus Company, which got its start when Hibbing natives Carl Wickman and Andrew Anderson bought a used Hupmobile, hoping to sell it at a profit.Through surprising, little-known stories, Minnesota 150 explores how such intangibles as personal judgment, political climate, and popular taste can shape our view of the past.

      Minnesota 150
    • Feet in Chains

      • 220 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden
      3,8(45)Abgeben

      In the pages of this classic 1936 novel, we see the passionate and headstrong Jane grow up and grow old, struggling to bring up a family of six children on the pittance earned by her slate-quarrying husband, Ifan.

      Feet in Chains
    • Kate Roberts is acknowledged as a leading short story writer and novelist, but she began her literary career as a playwright. Her name is linked to about 15 plays, as translator, co-author and as playwright in her own right. This volume sees, for the first time, the publication of three complete, original plays by Kate Roberts.

      Cyfrolau Cenedl: 15. Kate Roberts - Tair Drama