Viva Bartali!

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cofiant ar ffurf barddoniaeth yw Viva Bartali! , yn adrodd hanes y seiclwr Eidalaidd eiconig, Gino Bartali (1914-2000), enillydd y Tour de France ddwy waith. Mae'r cerddi'n darlunio ei yrfa, ei wrthwynebwyr a'i gyrchoedd cyfrinachol, rhyfeddol yn y cyfrwy yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd pan gludodd ddogfennau ffug a achubodd fywydau cannoedd o Iddewon Eidalaidd.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Viva Bartali! is a biography-in-verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali (1914—2000), two-time winner of the Tour de France. These poems conjure his career, his rivalries and his remarkable secret missions in the saddle during World War 2 carrying forged identity documents that saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Damian Walford Davies' poetry collections: Suit of Lights (2009) (selected for Wales Literature Exchange's Autumn Bookcase), Witch (2012) Judas (2015) , and Docklands: A Ghost Story (2019) have been well-received critically. He is a librettist – see A Mare's Tale: a libretto (Grey Mare) , and a translator, and he is a Cymraeg speaker. He is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He served as Chair of Literature Wales from 2012 to 2018, and from 2015 to 2018 was Chair of the Board of Cardiff University Press. He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He has given a TEDX talk on 'Cycling, Creativity, and Commercialism' in which he discusses the language of cycling!