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Alison Layland

I was raised in Newark and Bradford, and lived in various parts of the UK before moving to mid-Wales in 1997, I moved to Chirk, on the England-Wales border, in 2015, and now live by the beautiful coast of the island of Anglesey.

I studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University, and after a brief spell as a taxi driver worked for several years as a Chartered Surveyor before returning to my first love, languages, to become a freelance translator. I was Welsh Learner of the Year in 1999, and in 2002 won first place at the National Eisteddfod with a short story written in Welsh. I am a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards.

I am a fluent Welsh speaker and have also been translating for many years from German and French - works of creative fiction and specialist information texts. I am in the process of building on my decades of translating and writing experience to offer creative editing services.

When not at my desk I'm an environmental and social campaigner, and enjoy walking, crafting, growing and foraging.

When not at my desk I'm an environmental and social campaigner, and enjoy walking, crafting, growing and foraging.

translate for various publishers and agencies from German, French and Welsh – works of creative fiction and specialist information texts – and have been teaching myself Croatian as an indirect result of my research for my first novel, Someone Else’s Conflict.