Igihembo cya Barbellion

Igihembo cya Barbellion ni igihembo cy’ubuvanganzo cyo mu Bwongereza, "cyiyemeje guteza imbere amajwi y’abarwaye n’abantu bafite ubumuga mu mwandiko". Gitangwa buri mwaka ku mwanditsi wese, mu njyana iyo ari yo yose, ufite indwara ikomeye cyangwa utuye afite ubumuga. Iki gihembo cyashinzwe mu 2020 na Jake Goldsmith, ufite cystic fibrosis, kandi ibitaramo bye byanditswe “Neither Weak nor Obtuse” (2022: ISBN 978-1952386398) na “In Hospital Environments: Essays on Illness and Philosophy” (2024: ISBN 978-1952386930) byasohowe na Sagging Meniscus Press. Iki gihembo cyitwa ku izina rya W. N. P. Barbellion (1889–1919; izina rye nyakuri Bruce Frederick Cummings), umwanditsi w’igitabo “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, wabaye ufite multiple sclerosis kandi apfuye afite imyaka 30. ​Mu mwaka wa 2023, Goldsmith yatangaje ko iki gihembo “kizashyirwa ku kiruhuko kitazwi” kandi ko igihembo cya 2023 kitazatangwa, ariko “dushobora gukomeza mu 2024 mu buryo bwiza kurushaho”.  Kuva muri Gicurasi 2025, urubuga rw’iki gihembo rwavuze ko “Nyuma y’ikiruhuko cyacu, Igihembo cya Barbellion kizagaruka mu mwaka ushize. Ibindi bizatangazwa muri Nzeri 2025.” 

Iki gihembo ni mpuzamahanga kandi cyakira ibitabo bishya byahinduwe mu Cyongereza, ndetse n’ibyanditswe n’abanditse ubwabo (self-published), ariko ntikireba ibitabo bitarasohotse. Ubusabe bushingiye ku kuba umwanditsi agaragaza ubuzima afite indwara ikomeye cyangwa ubumuga bw’igihe kirekire... bushobora kugena ubuzima bwe ku buryo bugaragara, kandi abanditsi—nk’abari mu mwanya w’abita ku bandi—batagize ubumuga bashobora gusuzumwa niba igihangano cyabo ari cy’igitangaza mu kugaragaza ubuzima n’indwara, ariko bazahabwa umwanya muto mu guhatanira igihembo. Uwatsindiye iki gihembo ahabwa £1,000, igikombe cy’ikirahure (glass trophy), ndetse n’igitabo cya Barbellion cyitwa “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”. 

 Abatsinze 

 2020 

 Umukobwa wa Golem: inyandiko yumuhanzi Riva Lehrer, ufite spina bifida  ( Virago,  )

 2021 

 Ibyo Willow avuga na Lynn Buckle, utumva:  igitabo kivuga ku mwana w'igipfamatwi na nyirakuru ndetse no gukoresha ururimi rw'amarenga   ( Press Époque Press,  )

 2022 

 Igitabo cyamasaha: Almanac kubihe byubugingo by Letty McHugh, ufite sclerose nyinshi .   Igitabo cyanditswe ubwacyo kandi kiboneka kumurongo.  

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