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Pages in category "Writers from Cardiff" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Dannie Abse;
Born in Cardiff [2] Roald Dahl: 1916 1990 Author of works such as James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox and The BFG: Born in Llandaff, Cardiff [3] Peter Finch: 1947 — Poet, author of works such as Real Cardiff, Real Wales, Edging The Estuary, and Zen Cymru: Born in Cardiff [4] Ken ...
Peter Finch (born 1947) is a Welsh author, psychogeographer and poet living in Cardiff, Wales. Early life ... His first book of this genre, Real Cardiff, ...
Llwyd Owen is a Welsh-language fiction author born in Cardiff in 1977. He lives in Cardiff with his wife and daughters and works as a translator when not writing fiction. As well as publishing six acclaimed Welsh language novels and one English language adaptation, he is also a published poet and photographer who presented his own television documentary on S4C on the Cardiff art scene in 2008.
It became the first volume in the so-called 'Cardiff Trilogy', which includes the novels Cardiff Dead (2000) and The Prince of Wales (2003). He has also written biographies of the singer and Butetown native Dame Shirley Bassey and the Trinidadian Black Power activist Michael X and the Trinidadian historian and writer C.L.R. James.
Roger Boore was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1938, and was brought up in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, where he attended Warwick School.He was awarded a degree in classics (“Literae Humaniores”) at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1961 and a PhD in history at University of Wales Swansea in 2005.
Bernice Ruth Reuben was born in Splott, Cardiff, Wales, on 26 July 1923, the third of four children of Eli Reuben and his wife Dorothy, née Cohen. [1] ( Her obituary in The Independent says "though she later said 1928", and several sources report her birth date as 26 July 1928.
Howard Spring was born in Cardiff, the son of a jobbing gardener. He was forced to leave school at the age of twelve, when his father died, to start work as an errand boy. [3] He later became an office boy at a firm of chartered accountants in Cardiff Docks and then a messenger at the offices of the South Wales Daily News.