Former Daiwa Scholar publishes award-winning memoir

Former Daiwa Scholar (2012-2013) Eluned Gramich’s memoir of her homestay on the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Woman Who Brings the Rain has been published as an ebook after being awarded the WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment in February at the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards. A tale of folklore, loneliness and beauty with the elusive “Fuji of the north” Mount Yōtei (羊蹄山) at its centre, her memoir won the award under the title Scenes of a Hokkaidan Life.

Woman Who Brings the Rain is available to download on Kindle eBooks – click here to order.

Eluned will be giving a talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on Monday, 7 December from 7pm, details below:

Talk by Eluned Gramich at DAJF on 7 Dec 2015, website

 

The New Welsh Review also has a review of Eluned Gramich’s release and a 3-minute  visual interpretation of her award-winning memoir: New Welsh Review, Website Visual Interpretation

Here is an extract from the eBook: Woman Who Brings the Rain Extract, pdf

You can read a review of her memoir via the link below:

Wales Arts Review: Woman Who Brings the Rain

 

 

You can also read an article by Eluned Gramich on how Japan cured her writer’s block via the link below:

How Japan Cured my Writers Block by Eluned Gramich

 

Other pieces about Eluned Gramich on our website can be found via the following links:

Former Daiwa Scholar Eluned Gramich has won the New Welsh Writing Award Oku Hanafu by Eluned Gramich - Review