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Jasmine Donahaye

Writing

Selected articles

Nation.Cymru: Talking across the divide
The New York Times: You have to let go to move on
The London Magazine: Nondescripts
The Clearing: Waiting for the bird apocalypse
The Conversation: How a Victorian trip to Palestine spurred modern ornithology – and left it with imperial baggage

Books

Book cover of award-winning nature writing essay collection Birdsplaining by Jasmine Donahaye, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year

Birdsplaining: A Natural History

New Welsh Rarebyte, 2023

Parthian, 2025

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2024

Book cover of memoir Losing Israel by Jasmine Donahaye, winner of Wales Book of the Year

Losing Israel

Seren, 2015

Winner, Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year, 2016

Selected as one of the Sunday Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2015

Book cover of biography of Lily Tobias, The Greatest Need, by Jasmine Donahaye, the basis for S4C documentary

The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias

Honno, 2015

Book cover of scholarly monograph Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine by Jasmine Donahaye, published by University of Wales Press

Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine

University of Wales Press, 2012

Book cover of poetry collection Self-portrait as Ruth by Jasmine Donahaye, published by Salt, longlisted for Wales Book of the Year

Self-portrait as Ruth

Salt, 2009

Long-listed, Wales Book of the Year 2010

Book cover, with Shani Rhys James painting, of Misappropriations by Jasmine Donahaye, shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood first collection prize

Misappropriations

Parthian, 2006

Shortlisted, Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2007

Full writing CV

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