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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Someone contacted my husband to see if they could get discounted copies of my book for their reading group. I didn't have any to spare, so I asked my publisher and they were eager to help. All this happened in less than an hour. This is what I like about social media 🙂

I had a Royal tea 😂

Each AI Ghibli-ised photo shared gleefully on social media is a knife in the heart of the wonderful man who gave us the gift of Ghibli with a lifetime of hardwork and a most fantastic imagination ☹️

Adeilad!

Quit Twitter and joined Bluesky. Now, there are no reacts! 😂

It's not a good translation otherwise.

My translation of my favourite Kannada drinking song. The poet, G P Rajaratnam, a staunch teetotaler, wrote it in the voice of 'Ratna,' an illiterate man with a deep fondness for three things 'drink, wife, and song' who spouted the deepest philosophies of life in the most rustic of words.

'They say you fraternized with a particular criminal.' 'That's not true. I have fraternized with ALL the criminals.'