About Karen
Karen Dawn Sawyer
PHOTOGRAPHER, MUSICIAN, AUTHOR & GENEALOGIST
Born in Bath, Karen has been living in West Wales for 24 years. She has written two books, is a singer-songwriter, and recently qualified with a distinction as a 'Master of Science' in Genealogy, Palaeography and Heraldry.
Hanner Chant
Eurdy (album, 2019)
Karen has been writing songs in various parts of West Wales for the best part of 20 years. To celebrate her 50th birthday in June 2019, she released a digital album under the pseudonym Hanner Chant (meaning "half-century" in Welsh)... it's a compilation of her favourite musical collaborations over the past three decades or so.
Karen is also the author of two books...
...and has been writing her third for the past ten years and counting (honestly, I don't know what's taking her so long!). Entitled, The Muse, she is looking forward to finishing and sharing it with you one day.
So is her publisher!
SOUL COMPANIONS
Her first book, published in 2008, is a collection of interviews with 33 very different people (among them a Rabbi, an Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder from Greenland, an Icelandic Druid, and a Sami Shaman) on a quest to find out what, if anything, guides them through life. This is what they told her...
THE DANGEROUS MAN
Karen's second book has become fairly controversial following its publication in 2010. Sir David Bellamy described it as "a breath of fresh air". It is a collection of interviews and essays that offer alternative insights into the world we live in, discussing what have since become some of the biggest conspiracies of our time...
