{"name": "Hughes, Rhys", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Rhys Hughes is one of the most prolific and successful authors in Wales, although his work has rarely been available in his own country. His earliest publications were chess problems and mathematical puzzles for newspapers.\r\n His first short story was published in 1992 and since then he has embarked on a project that involves writing exactly one thousand linked \u2018items\u2019 of fiction, including novels, to form a gigantic story cycle. Many of these individual items have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the world and his books are currently being translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Greek.\r\n Rhys\u2019s latest novel, The Postmodern Mariner, is available from Screaming Dreams; who also have released Dead Ends: Anthology containing his story \u201cDegrees of Separation\u201d.\r\nRead Rhys\u2019s blog, The Spoons That Are My Ears:"}, "photograph": "/static/files//433/OL2987246A_photograph_1216524188190433.jpg", "entity_type": "Writer", "personal_name": "Rhys Hughes", "photos": [3364502], "birth_date": "September 24, 1966", "fuller_name": "Rhys Henry Hughes", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "99044793", "wikidata": "Q7321793", "isni": "0000000084583928", "goodreads": "122631", "lc_naf": "no2003014552"}, "links": [{"url": "http://rhysaurus.blogspot.com", "title": "Website", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL2987246A", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T15:03:11.581851"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-03T22:25:19.003124"}}