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See also List of Welsh-language authors, List of Welsh women writers and List of Welsh-language poets (6th century to c. 1600). Abbreviations: c. = about, fl. = active; B = writing in Brythonic , C = writing in Chinese, E = writing in English (including Middle English ), F = writing in French, G = writing in German, L = writing in Latin, sl ...
This is a list of Welsh-language authors. A. Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901–1987) William Ambrose (Emrys) (1813–1873) Gwynn ap Gwilym (1950–2016)
It includes as many minor poets as possible to illustrate the range and content of Welsh poetry throughout the ages. However much early poetry has been lost, and much medieval verse is either anonymous or, usually in the case of mythological poems and prophetic verse, attributed to the 6th-century poet Taliesin or the mythical figure of Myrddin ...
The Cynfeirdd is a modern term which is used to refer to the earliest poets that wrote in Welsh and Welsh poetry dating before 1100. These poets (beirdd) existed in the modern geographical definition of Wales in addition to the Old North ( Yr Hen Ogledd ) and the language of the time was a common root called Brittonic , a precursor to the Welsh ...
Fanny Winifred Edwards (1876–1959), children's author, dramatist and schoolteacher; Rhian Edwards (active from 2000s), poet; Sally El Hosaini (born 1976), British-Egyptian film director and screenwriter; Elen Egryn (1807–1897), Welsh-language poet; Menna Elfyn (born 1952), Welsh-language poet, playwright, columnist and editor; Christine ...
The post of National Poet of Wales (Welsh: Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in May 2005 by Academi – the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers. The current holder of the position is Hanan Issa , who was appointed for a period of three years in July 2022.
The Guild was a cornerstone of the Anglo-Welsh literary renaissance, which led to the foundation of the re-created Welsh academi. Throughout the 1970s Bryn gave poetry readings and lectures in the United Kingdom , North America and Australia , before founding the first Arts and Working Life project for workers in Western Australia .
Glyn Jones was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1905 into a Welsh-speaking household. [1] His father was a post office clerk and his mother a teacher. [3] Despite Welsh being his family language he was educated in English, as were all attending mainstream education in Wales in the first half of the 20th century.