George Orwell’s timeless novel Animal Farm, one of Time magazine’s 100 best English-language novels of all time, has been translated by Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul into Gaelic for the very first time.
When the animals of Manor Farm revolt and take contrl from Mr Jones, they have hopes for a life of freedom and equality. However, when the pigs Napoleon and Snowball rise to power, the other animals discover that they may not be as equal as they had once thought. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as being ‘the history of a revolution that went wrong’, this book is as relevant now – if not more so – as it was when it was first written.
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Tha Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul à Uibhist a Deas, ged a chuir e seachad a bhliadhnachan mar dheugaire air Eilean Shaoil, deas air an Òban. Chaidh e gu Àrd-sgoil an Òbain far an robh Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn ga theagasg. Às dèidh ceumnachadh le Urram ann am Poilitigs agus Eachdraidh o Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann dh’obraich e mar neach-naidheachd agus mar chraoladair. Tha e air grunn leabhraichean a sgrìobhadh. Nam measg, an nobhail ‘An Oidhche Mus do Sheòl Sinn’, an cruinneachadh bàrdachd ‘Aibisidh’ a choisinn Duais Leabhar Bàrdachd na Bliadhna an Alba ann an 2011, agus an nobhail Bheurla ‘Memory and Straw’ a choisinn duais Leabhar na Bliadhna aig Duaisean Litreachais Saltire ann an 2017. A bharrachd air an eadar-theangachadh seo dhen leabhar aig Seòras Orwell (‘Animal Farm’) tha e cuideachd an-dràsta a’ sgrìobhadh na dàrna nobhail mu dheidhinn ‘Constabal Murdo’ agus nobhail ùr Bheurla, Electricity.