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Hafan is a Welsh word: haven, sanctuary, asylum. Scroll down to see our books. Downloads are free, but don't include covers. The books are lovely to have and hold. Most include original b/w photographs and artwork. Authors and artists: Volker Braun, Humberto Gatica, Mary Hayman, Gemma June Howell, Alhaji Sheku Kamara, Berkan Karpat & Zafer Şenocak, Aime Kongolo, Chris Samia, Zafer Şenocak, Steve Short. Download our free catalogue below for more information. The books are in a large format (c.22x28cm = 8.5"x11") except Zafer Şenocak's Perilous Kinship in a conventional format (c.18x23cm = 6"x9"). Click 'Add Print to Cart' to buy from Lulu.com. All proceeds go to refugee charities, primarily Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. See their website for readings and other events. Contact us by email or write to Hafan Books c/o Tom Cheesman, School of Arts, Swansea University, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK.
Last updated October 2009.
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Print: $15.87 Download: FREE Three stories by Volker Braun, first published in German in 2000 ('Das Wirklichgewollte'), set in Italy, eastern Russia, and Brazil: stories about the costs of globalization. Also in this volume: 'Break down power relations', Volker Braun's speech on accepting the Georg Büchner Prize 2000. Trans.: Tom Cheesman. With photographs by Eduardo Paca, from his project 'Social Mobility', about child refugees and asylum seekers in Swansea and other UK cities. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. ISBN 978-0-9562409-0-3. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.87 Download: FREE 16 poems in Spanish and English by Humberto Gatica, with 11 photographs by the author, and an afterword by Nigel Jenkins. David Constantine describes the poems as "stark, exact, unsentimental. A cold wind whistles through them: breath nevertheless" (MPT). ISBN 978-0-9545147-5-4. All proceeeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group (www.hafan.org). Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.89 Download: FREE Darkly comic stories from the Welsh Valleys, by Gemma June Howell. Photographs by Chris Samia. Afterword by Karl Francis. ISBN 978-0-9545147-9-2. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.93 Download: FREE nâzım hikmet: on the ship to mars. A 'scenic poem' in 10 segments by Berkan Karpat and Zafer Şenocak, about the Romantic communist poet Nâzım Hikmet. The translation from German by Tom Cheesman appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation (3rd series, 12, autumn 2009). Hafan Books edition: ISBN 978-0-9562409-5-8.
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Print: $15.89 Download: FREE Poems by Alhaji Sheku Kamara, pictures by Mary Hayman, afterword by Tom Cheesman and Sylvie Hoffmann. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. ISBN 978-0-9562409-2-7. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.87 Download: FREE Poems by Aimé Kongolo (English and French), pictures by Mary Hayman, afterword by Sadhbh O'Dwyer. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. ISBN 978-0-9545147-8-5. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.89 Download: FREE Zafer Şenocak has been called the Woody Allen of German novelists. In Perilous Kinship, German and Turkish and Jewish memories of genocide and mutual suspicions are comically fused in a single lackadaisical character. Gefährliche Verwandtschaft has been translated into French, Spanish and Turkish. English by Tom Cheesman. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. Conventional format edition (9"x6"/15.2x22.9cm): ISBN 978-0-9562409-4-1. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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Print: $15.79 Download: FREE Five ballads by Steve Short, with an Afterword by M. Wynn Thomas. All proceeds to Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group. ISBN 978-0-9545147-7-8. Got a UK bank account? Order by email direct from Hafan Books. See our store for more Hafan Books.
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