Pugnacious Little Trolls by Rob Mimpriss

Pugnacious Little Trolls by Rob Mimpriss

'Where is the Welsh short story going? Wherever Rob Mimpriss takes it.' John O'Donoghue, laureate, MIND Book of the Year Award

In his first three short-story collections, Rob Mimpriss painstakingly mapped the hidden lives of country-dwellers in Wales. In Pugnacious Little Trolls, he combines the dark eloquence and surety of his earlier work with confident experimentation, in stories set among the bird-bodied harpies of Central America, among the dog-headed Cynocephali of Central America, and in the muddle of slag-heaps and job centres that H. G. Wells's Country of the Blind has become. In the three stories at the heart of the collection is Tanwen, idealistic and timid, confronting global warming and the rise of fascism as she embarks on her adult life.

Rob Mimpriss is the author of three short story collections: Reasoning, For His Soldiers, and Praying at the End, as well as the translator of Richard Hughes Williams' Heading South. His recent short fiction has been short-listed for the Rhys Davies Award and has been translated into Arabic by Hala Salah Eldin for an anthology of fiction published by Albawtaka, Cairo. He's written about Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Robert Olmstead, and others for New Writing, New Welsh Review, and other publications. In honor of his services to Welsh writing, he was admitted to Fellowship of the Welsh Academy in 2011. He lives in Bangor and may be found at http://www.robmimpriss.com.