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Finch was born in Cardiff, Wales, in March 1947, son of Stanley and Marjorie Finch, a post office worker and a telephonist. He attended school in the city and took up his first job as a trainee local government accountant at Glamorgan County Council in 1963.
Parthian Books was founded in Cardiff in 1993 by Richard Lewis Davies, who was then labouring on building sites, [5] artist Gillian Griffiths, and teacher Ravi Pawar. Initial development training and support for the company was provided by the Prince's Youth Business Trust (now known as the Prince's Trust) [6] and the Enterprise Allowance. [7]
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 ...
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.
The University of Wales Press (Welsh: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) was founded in 1922 as a central service of the University of Wales. [2] The press publishes academic journals and around seventy books a year in the English and Welsh languages on six general subjects: history, political philosophy and religious studies, Welsh and Celtic studies, literary studies, European studies and medieval studies.
From 1966 to 1985, he was deputy music critic of The Observer, overlapping with a senior lectureship at Cardiff University from 1976. He later held a chair at the university. [2] He retired from Cardiff in 2013, since when he has continued his career as a freelance author and biographer. [citation needed]
This journal advocates for original submissions based on the social experiences of society and the intersectionality of feminism. The editors-in-chief are Cynthia Carter (Cardiff University) and Isabel Molina-Guzmán (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). The editorial board consists of authors and researchers from institutions around the ...