POET and novelist Christopher Meredith, from Brecon, has been awarded the Translators' House Wales/HALMA international scholarship for 2012/2013.

He will spend two separate month-long writing residencies abroad, supported by the HALMA network of literary houses – the first in Finland at the end of October and the second in Slovenia in the New Year.

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