Rhys Hughes
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Rhys Henry Hughes is a Welsh writer and essayist born on September 24, 1966 in Cardiff.
He is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Vladimir Nabokov, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile. He has been published in Postscripts among other places.
Although he is not a member of OuLiPo, the international literary group that uses mathematics and logic to create texts that break the familiar patterns of "normal" writing, he is one of the few English-speaking practitioners of these methods.
One of his current projects consists of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales. Hughes calls this cycle a "wheel", which in turn is formed by smaller "wheels" within "wheels". In June 2005, Hughes wrote his 350th story, hailing it as "...a landmark of some kind -- having said that, Morris Castle in Swansea is a landmark of some kind, and it ain't pretty!"
As well as publishing books in English and having those works translated, Hughes has also created books especially for foreign language publishers that will never exist in English. For instance, A Sereia de Curitiba will only exist in a Portuguese version.
In addition to fiction, Hughes is working on a critical biography of author Michael Moorcock, and has completed his own Jerry Cornelius story.
In 2005 his was the title story in The Minotaur in Pamplona, two chapbooks published by D-Press and edited by Neil Ayres. The collection also featured a poem by Brian Aldiss.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- The Percolated Stars (2003)
[edit] Collections
- Worming the Harpy (1995)
- Eyelidiad (1996)
- Rawhead & Bloody Bones (1998)
- The Smell of Telescopes (2000)
- Journeys Beyond Advice (2002)
- Nowhere Near Milk Wood (2002)
- Stories from a Lost Anthology (2002)
- A New Universal History of Infamy (2004)
- Em Busca do Livro de Areia (selection in Portuguese translation, 2005)
- At the Molehills of Madness (2006)
- The Crystal Cosmos (forthcoming 2007)
- A Sereia de Curitiba (forthcoming in Portuguese translation, 2007)
- The Less Lonely Planet (forthcoming 2007)
[edit] Chapbooks
- Romance with Capsicum (1995)
- In Praise of Ridicule (2003)
- The Skeleton of Contention (2004)
[edit] External links
- The Spoons That Are My Ears!, Rhys Hughes's weblog
- An Interview with Rhys Hughes, by Anthony Brockway
