Autor: Susan Karen Burton

Susan Karen Burton“s biographical essay, „he Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima“, won the new Welsh Writing Awards 2020 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting. As an oral historian and nonfiction writer, she spent over a decade in Japan collecting the life stories of British migrants. She holds a DPhil in History from the University of Sussex and a second doctorate in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in Times Higher Education, the Telegraph, the Manchester Review, Words and Women, Hinterland and Going Down Swinging, as well as in New Welsh Reader. She is also the co-author of two books in Japanese. Her ongoing project, Gaijin: Modern Japan Through Western Eyes, was shortlisted by the Biographers“ Club for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2018.