Don Sebastián

Javier Vergara S.A., 1996

Reviewed in the cultural sections of all major newspapers in Argentina.

Featured in books section of Ronda, the in-flight magazine of Aerolineas Argentinas (September 1996)

Distribution: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico

Featured at the Guadalajara Book Fair, November 1996

Mimosa: The Life and Times of the Ship That Sailed to Patagonia

Y Lolfa, 2007 (Recipient of a publishing grant from the Welsh Books Council)

Republished in 2015

Description: clipper ship history - 19th century maritime history of Aberdeen and Liverpool - tea, sugar, cotton and palm oil trades of the 19th century - the Welsh colony in Patagonia and voyage - end of clipper ship period

Mimosa’s Voyages: Logs, Crew Lists and Masters

Y Lolfa, 2007

(A compilation and description of the ship’s voyages and crews from 1852 to 1880)

The Wonder of Patagonia

The Western Mail (Cardiff, 2006)

Shortlisted for Seven Wonders of Wales contest

https://www.lastfrontiers.com/articles/view/the-wonder-of-patagonia-susan-wilkinson

Harbourfront Reading Series (November 28, 1989)

“Images of the Pampas”/“Imágenes pampeanas”, bi-lingual reading excerpts from Sebastian’s Pride/Don Sebastián, Glendon College, York University, Ontario, Canada (September 2l-24, 2000)

“Buenos Aires in World Culture/El Mundo en Buenos Aires”, a literary symposium in dialogue with Argentine historian Dr. Félix Luna, sponsored by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada and the Konex Foundation (an Argentine organization to promote culture), the Legislative Palace, Buenos Aires (October 18, 2004)

Recollections of an Irish Born Doctor in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, Reception and Launch, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, hosted by Professor John Hyland, Vice President, RCSI and officially launched by Sr. Rafael Galetto, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of Argentina (October 27, 2015)

Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Córdoba (April 8-9, 1998) Title of lecture: “Sebastian’s Pride”. (Travel from Canada sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada

National University of La Plata, Department of Literature (April 1998) (Panel discussion on literary translation as it pertained to the Spanish translation of Sebastian’s Pride)

Second Annual Conference of the Argentine Association of Canadian Studies, Buenos Aires (September l8 – 20, 1998) (Panelist on discussion on Sebastian’s Pride and its Spanish-language publication in Argentina)

Centre for Canadian Studies, Asunción, Paraguay, August 2002. Title of lecture:  “Literature in Canada: a Historical Perspective”.

The First International Conference on the Welsh in Patagonia, Puerto Madryn, Patagonia (October 23 to 24, 2002). (Participation as keynote speaker funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.)

London Welsh Association, Kings College, London (June 23, 2003) Title of lecture: “The Voyage of the Mimosa”.

The Second International Conference on the Welsh in Patagonia, University of Puerto Madryn, Patagonia (October 25 to 26, 2004) (Participation funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Canada.

National Archives, Kew, Surrey (September 21, 2005) Title of lecture: “The Voyage of the Welsh to Patagonia.” (As part of the “Year of the Sea” series of lectures organized by the National Archives.)

The British Arts Centre, Buenos Aires (March 15, 2007) Title of lecture: The Stories behind the Mimosa Voyage.  (Sponsored by the Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa and the Club Europeo, Buenos Aires.)

Sixth Conference on the Welsh in Patagonia, University of Puerto Madryn, Argentina, September 13-14, 2012. Title of lecture: “The Making of the Mimosa Model”.

FAAPI (Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Ingles) Conference “Engaging, Inspiring, Empowering: Research on Motivation and Autonomy in ELT”, San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, Argentina (September 20-22, 2012)  Guest speaker at Plenary Session. (Travel costs within Argentina covered by Argentine Association for Canadian Studies)

Mimosa Festival commemorating the 150th anniversary of the voyage to Patagonia, Liverpool (May 29-31, 2015) Keynote speaker opening the three-day event, sponsored by the Merseyside Welsh Historical Society

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 24, No. 2, 36-72, edited by W.H. New and M. Dahms (1989)

“Don Sebastián” by Leandro Pastor, Proa (March, 1997) (A vanguard literary journal established by Jorge Luis Borges, Norah Borges, et al.)

“Don Sebastián de Susan Wilkinson” by Patricio López, Ser Literal (August, 1997)

“Southamericana, or Writers in English in Argentina” by Andrew Graham Yooll, Latin American British Studies Association, Buenos Aires (December, l998)

Re-Defining Anglo-Argentine Literature: From Travel Writing to Travel Identities by Claudia Mónica Ferradas, Ph.D thesis, University of Nottingham (2011) pgs. 253-257, 270-271

“Welsh Literature in South America”, The Welsh Diaspora and its Literature by Paula Bardell-Hedley (April, 2018)

Mimosa, a commissioned musical work composed by Dyfan Jones, directed by Tim Baker, and staged by the Clywd Theatr Cymru, Mold on the journey to Patagonia, based in part on the voyage as related in Mimosa: the Life and Times of the Ship that Sailed to Patagonia, performed in both Welsh and English in Wales, Liverpool and Patagonia, as part of the 150 year celebrations in 2015.