Emyr Wallace Humphreys

Literary translator/Cyfieithydd llenyddol/Tradutor literário

Emyr Wallace Humphreys translates from Welsh and Portuguese to English, and from English to Welsh. A graduate of the MA programme in Translation Studies at University College London, he has had literary translations published in journals such as The White Review, the New Welsh Review and Joyland Magazine, and has collaborated with Parthian Books, HarperCollins and UCL Press as a literary translator. He won a bursary for the 2022 Bristol Translates Literary Translation Summer School and was the first Celtic-language translator to be awarded the 2022-23 Visible Communities Mentorship, part of the National Centre for Writing’s Emerging Translator Mentorship programme. He is a two-time nominee for Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations anthology. He also works as a Welsh translator for Coleg Gwent and as a volunteer Welsh translator for the Centre for Alternative Technology and Mid & North Powys Mind. He lives in Wales, dividing his time between rural Powys and Aberystwyth.

Translations

When the Gangster Falters, By Márcio Barbosa, in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction, UCL Press, 3 September 2024

Click, by Elisa Lucinda, in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Short Fiction, UCL Press, 3 September 2024

The Last Day, by Owain Owain, Parthian, 2024, 06 June 2024

The Fanatic’s Story, by Leonardo Garzaro, in Latin American Literature Today, n. 28, December 2023

I am in today as if on a horse, by Ana Martins Marques, in The Stephen Spender Trust, Third Prize, Open Category, November 2023

The Last Day by Owain Owain: Translation Preview from Y Dydd Olaf by Emyr Wallace Humphreys, in New Welsh Review n.133, autumn 23 edition, September 2023

A Hole Where Your Name Is, by Ana Paula Lisboa, in Daughters of Latin America, ed. Sandra Guzman, HarperCollins, 13 August 2023

8 June 1909, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida, in Mulheres no Paiz, 10 August 2023

23 November 1909, by Júlia Lopes de Almeida, in Mulheres no Paiz, 10 August 2023

From The Last Day, by Owain Owain, in Emerging Literary Translators 2023, National Centre for Writing, 30 March 2023

The Functionary’s Story, by Leonardo Garzaro, in Literal Magazine, 22 September 2022

Excerpt from Eva, by Nara Vidal, in Your Impossible Voice Issue 26, May 2022

Carmen, by Nara Vidal, in The White Review, January 2022

Maps to Nowhere, by Nara Vidal, in Joyland Magazine n.4, 17 November 2021

Leanne Wood: ‘Dyw Ond Eisiau Annibyniaeth Ddim Yn Ddigon. Rydyn Ni Angen Strategaeth’, by Aaron Bastani, in Novara Media, 6 October 2021

A Allai’r Blaid Lafur Arwain Cymru at Annibyniaeth?, by Aaron Bastani in Novara Media, 6 October 2021

Letícia’s Marriage, by Nara Vidalin Latin American Literature Today v.1 n.19, August 2021

Amanda, by Nara Vidal, in Qorpus v.11 n.1 March 2021/Especial Brazilian Translation Club

CHAPTER 20 – In Search of the Tender Miracle, by Rui Zink, in Bode Inspiratório/Escape goat, May 2020.

Marelena (excerpt), by Nara Vidal, in Capitolina Books Blog, 15 June, 2019

Awards/Accolades

The Last Day on the Welsh Bookshelf 2024, Cyfnewidfa Lên Cymru, October 2024

Nominated: Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology 2025

Featured: The Last Day in Vic and Jasmine's Sci-fi/Fantasy Bookclub, Waterstones Aberystwyth, 13 August 2024

Featured: The Last Day in the Bookseller’s Dozen, Mr B’s Emporium, June 2024

Nominated: Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology 2024

Third Place: The Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation 2023 (co-translation)

The Wales Literature Exchange: Novel translation grant for The Last Day, August 2023

The Wales Literature Exchange: Sample translation grant for The Last Day, December 2022

National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorship (Visible Communities mentorship), 2022 – 2023

Bristol Translates Bursary 2022

Workshops/Courses

Portuguese workshop with Daniel Hahn and Susana Moreira Marques, BCLT Summer School, 22 - 26 July 2024

Portuguese Poetry Translation Workshop with Rahul Bery, Stephen Spender Trust, 21 June 2024

Literary Translation Workshop with Hay Festival Writers at Work, 02 June 2024

Poetry Translation Workshops with PELTA, Portuguese to English Literary Translators Association, 6 March & 30 April 2023

Gweithdy Cyfieithu Barddoniaeth Cymraeg/ Welsh Poetry Translation Workshop with Lowri Williams and Arachne Press, 15 January 2023

National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorship (Visible Communities mentorship), 2022 – 2023

Brazilian Portuguese Literary Translation Course with Alison Entrekin, February – August 2022

Cwrs Gloywi Iaith with Dysgu Cymraeg. Advanced Certification in Welsh for Adults (Grade: Distinction), September 2021 - June 2022

Multilingual Translation Workshop with Daniel Hahn at Bristol Translates, 4-6 July 2022

Portuguese - English Workshop Led by Rahul Bery with Manchester in Translation and Comma Press, 22 February 2022

Poetry Translation Workshop with Wales Lit Exchange, Wales PEN Cymru, Literature Across Frontiers, Aberystywth, 8 September 2019

Celebrating Multilingualism on the Page, multilingual translation workshop at the University of London, 1 June 2019

Spanish Literary Translation Masterclass at the British Library with Rahul Bery (Translator in Residence), 18 May 2019

Writing

Inside Júlia Lopes de Almeida’s Rio: on Translating Two of Her Crônicas, PELTA Blog, 8 December 2023

The Last Day by Owain Owain: Translation Preview from Y Dydd Olaf by Emyr Wallace Humphreys, in New Welsh Review n.133, autumn 23 edition, September 2023

Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme, in Newyddion, ITI Cymru Wales, Summer 2023

Introduction, in Emerging Literary Translators 2023, National Centre for Writing, 30 March 2023

Books of the Year, in the White Review, December 2022

On translating Nara Vidal’s “Amanda”, in Qorpus v.11 n. 1 March 2021/Especial Brazilian Translation Club

Research

A sociocultural perspective on the rise of the Brazilian Novelist in Translation, September 2019. (MA thesis. Grade: Distinction)

Lectures/Events

Y Dydd Olaf, Gŵyl Nawr, 02 November 2024

Meet the Authors, Gŵyl Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Festival, 22 September 2024

The Last Day in Vic and Jasmine's Sci-fi/Fantasy Bookclub, Waterstones Aberystwyth, 13 August 2024

Found in Translation: Art or Alcemi?, Storyville Books, Eisteddfod Rhondda Cynon Taf, 03 August 2024

Y Dydd Olaf / The Last Day, Gŵyl Arall, Palas Print, Caernarfon, 7 July 2024

Found in Translation: Art or Alcemi?, Waterstones Aberystywth, 20 June 2024

Brazilian Translation Club: Julia Lopes de Almeida (online), 05 June 2024

BBC Radio Wales: Arts Hour, Hay Festival, 27 May 2024

CY-335 Cyfieithu (online), Swansea University, 29 April 2024 (Lecturing on translating The Last Day into English for third-year undergraduates of the University of Swansea’s Welsh degree.)

PELTA & Portuguese in Translation Present: Discovering Lusophone Literature, New Cross Gate, London, 21 November 2023

The Politics and Mixed Fortunes of Welsh and other Minority Languages, University of Aberystwyth, 12 July 2023

Wyneb Newidiol Technoleg yng Nghymru, Swansea Science Festival & University of Swansea, 5 November 2022

A Historia e a Cultura do País de Gales, in 106208 - A Babel Poética e Literária: a tradução em vários idiomas: Módulo II (online), Universidade de São Paulo, 13 June 2022

Media Coverage

Book review: The Last Day/Y Dydd Olaf by Owain Owain, Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru, 06 October 2024

Rediscovering an Orwellian Welsh classic: THE LAST DAY by Owain Owain, Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine, 13 June 2024

The Last Day by Owain Owain, translated by Emyr Wallace Humphreys , Team B’s Weekly Book Reviews , 06 June 2024

Radio Wales Arts Show: Hay Festival Special, BBC Radio Wales, 31 May 2024

Final Ulysses’ Shelter selected writers announced, Literature Across Frontiers, 06 May 2024

Two PELTA members published in groundbreaking anthology of writing by Latine women, in October Newsletter, PELTA, October 2023

33, autumn 2023. Theme: voices, in October 2023 Newsletter from New Welsh Review, The New Welsh Review, October 2023

Testemunho de Emyr Humphreys, Mulheres no Paiz on Youtube, 10 August 2023

Member Interview: Emyr Humphreys, in Newyddion, ITI Cymru Wales, Spring 2023

Foreword, in Emerging Literary Translators 2023, National Centre for Writing, 30 March 2023

Meet the Future of Literary Translation, National Centre for Writing on Youtube, 30 March 2023

Cyfieithu un o glasuron y byd llenyddol Cymraeg i’r Saesneg, in Golwg360, November 2022

Emerging Translators 2023 - Meet the mentees!, National Centre for Writing on Youtube, 17 October 2022

NCW announces 2022 Emerging Translators, BookBrunch, 3 October 2022

NCW Emerging Translator Mentorships 2022-23 – Winners, Polish Cultural Institute London, 3 October 2022

National Centre for Writing supports 14 emerging translators through mentoring programme, in The Bookseller, 20 September 2022

Emyr Humphreys reads a short story from Nara Vidal's MAPS TO NOWHERE, Translators Aloud on Youtube, 19 July 2022

Academia

Prentisiaeth Gyfieithu Cymraeg L4/ L4 Welsh Translation Apprenticeship, Coleg Gŵyr Abertawe, October 2024 - Present

MA Translation Studies, University College London, 2017 - 2019 (Grade: Distinction)

BA Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, 2010 - 2014 (Grade: 2:1)