Waterstones has a pre-order link to my poetry collection! #SkinnyDippingInTigerCountry www.waterstones.com/book/skinny-...

I don't come from the literary power centres of India viz. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras. If it's a disadvantage, I looked past it. But my moment of redemption has arrived in the form of my current home becoming Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature! <3 cityofliterature.wales/home?brid=0t...

Chuffed to announce my debut poetry collection 'Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country'. It can be pre-ordered here: valleypressuk.com/products/ski...

Hettavara Neralu is part of book bundle on sale for Kannada Rajyotsava! Tell your Kannada friends. #KannadaLiterature #KannadaNovel #HettavaraNeralu #WomenWriting #KannadaRajyotsava

I was sent this short animation of the cover of my new book. Gave me goosebumps! :) #KannadaNovel #HettavaraNeralu #WomenWriting

Excited to announce that my first Kannada novel Hettavara Neralu is now in the final stages of production. The pre-order link is up. Join this facebook page for all updates: www.facebook.com/profile.php?... #KannadaNovel #HettavaraNeralu #KannadaLiterature #WomenWriting

Rhys Hughes' plays are being performed at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea today!

Looks like not giving Rushdie the Nobel is a Scandinavian tradition.

Not only was she not offended by this, Jane Goodall wrote a foreword to Gary Larson's book following this cartoon. A healthy sense of humour is a sign of great intelligence. That, empathy, and kindness to animals. The planet needs Jane Goodalls now more than ever. #GoodbyeJaneGoodall

An old video of Rhys speaking at a literary convention in Portugal many moons ago. The video is grainy and the audio isn't very sharp. But it's good enough for me to see how handsome and poised and erudite my then yet-to-be husband was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIV...

The second hottest Welshman. #MichaelSheen #OwainGlyndŵr #RhysHughes

Two plays by Rhys Hughes will be performed at the Volcano Theatre in Swansea in October. Come if you are around. www.visitswanseabay.com/event/two-sh...

Please watch this video on AI slop. It's John Oliver. It's as entertaining as it's informational. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

Rhys Hughes' two new books look like the works of art they are :)

I'm surprised that Wiktionary quotes from Rhys' book 'Nowhere Near Milkwood' to demonstrate the usage of toasted cheese. I always thought he'd be quoted on aardvarks. @rhysaurus.bsky.social

The title of my forthcoming Kannada novel 'Hettavara Neralu' roughly translates as 'In the Shadow of the Birth-givers'. It is entirely fiction but my mum has been suffering from a guilty conscience for reasons best known to herself. And this has been her attitude ever since I announced it 😃

And an Asian or African writer has to dish out 'fashionable' oppression stories with a dash of scatological references to cater to the West's trauma-porn appetite, which it then condescends to champion with prizes and awards. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The full spread. #hettavaraneralu #kannada #novel

Cover reveal of my Kannada novel 'Hettavara Neralu'! Grateful to Kiran Madalu who visualised my 420-page work of magic realist fiction with quirky subplots, strange dreamscapes, an undercurrent of humour where language is as much the message as the medium into this stunning image! #ಹೆತ್ತವರನೆರಳು

Exactly eight years ago my novel CLOUD FARMING IN WALES was published. it's a philosophical comedy about life in Wales and it's also a tribute to the writer Richard Brautigan, who taught me some new things about metafictional techniques. Published by @snugglybooks.bsky.social in the USA ☺️ #booksky

Anti-ageing treatments actually work. They k*ll you young so you never age.

I said it.

Rhys' new book is now available in Waterstones in the UK 🙂 www.waterstones.com/book/the-ele...

As work on the cover of my next book begins, I'm reminiscing about my first book cover nearly 5 years ago (chuckling at the author bio 😅). I started the year as a 1-book woman. If all goes well, I'll end it as a 3-book woman :)

The racist vitriol for the plane crash victims is wrong. But it's not as if Indians have endeared themselves around the world. This is the crass behaviour of our fellow citizens that oppresses us at home and has earned us a bad rep in our host countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG0N...

I made the National Library grow poppy to sell to China. Then I forced it to buy rice from me. And when it couldn't afford my prices, I shipped it off to Mauritius to grow sugarcane. Now, it spells its name Gnash Naal Lie Brie. 😈🤠😜

Had written this poem in 2022. It was published in Poetry Wales. Read it at the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival last Friday before going for a drink on the promenade and found the flags up again.

They made this poster of me for the forthcoming Aberystwyth Poetry Festival. If you are in town on Friday, come, watch me read :) (I'd forgotten all about this poem. Link in thread to the complete poem and a few others.)

I went to bed at 9 pm and woke up at 6 am and ate ganji. I call it 'early to bed and early to rice'.

I post colonial theory 😂

Rhys had left his copy of The Eye by Nabokov on my shelf when he visited last. I just read it. My review on goodreads. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

While my second novel is being typeset, the US edition of my first novel is getting ready for a July release. Here's a perceptive review. asianreviewofbooks.com/sylvia-by-ma...

And translation.

A delightful little reader's review of one of Rhy's books, 'Students of Myself' on LibraryThing.

Salman Rushdie has got novels. All his assailant has got is a sentence!

Rhys Hughes' new novel The Devil's Halo has been reviewed in The Borderless Journal and it's excellent! :) borderlessjournal.com/2025/05/14/i...

After a couple of setbacks, my Kannada novel Hettavara Neralu is finally on its way to being published. It's being brought out by the small but beautiful publishing house, Sankathana. Excited, grateful (and surprised that I wrote in Kannada)! :)

Just finished reading 'In Patagonia' by Bruce Chatwin. My review on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I'm reading at the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival in June! #aberystwythpoetryfestival

Reading 'In Patagonia' by Bruce Chatwin and found a typo! I thought it was a desi mistake. We make it 'alot' 😅

Went to the Library of Birmingham and found @rhysaurus.bsky.social in the Scribners Encyclopedia of Supernatural Fiction Writers 🥰🥰🥰

Not exactly 'a cunning plan!' #blackadder #baldrick #aberystwyth

"I saw you with Bob yesterday." "I thought he was you. You look alike." "No, we don't." "Yes, you do." "No, we don't" "Yes, you do." ... and so on.

Someone in my old apartment in Bangalore had a weird sense of humour.

A very perceptive essay on the reception of translated literature. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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