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Welsh literature in English

Index Welsh literature in English

Anglo-Welsh literature and Welsh writing in English are terms used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. [1]

182 relations: Aberdare, Abergavenny, Aberystwyth University, Adam of Usk, Alexander Cordell, Allen Raine, Alun Lewis (poet), Alun Richards, Angel Mountain Saga, Anglo-Scottish border, Angry young men, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Arthur Machen, Arts Council of Wales, Awdl, Bernice Rubens, Bill Hopkins (novelist), Booker Prize, Brecknockshire, Brecon, Breton literature, Brian John, C. S. Lewis, Caradoc Evans, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Charles Kemble, Christopher Meredith, Communist Party of Great Britain, Cornish literature, Cwmaman, D. H. Lawrence, Dannie Abse, David Jones (artist-poet), David Lloyd George, Devolution in the United Kingdom, Dream vision, Duncan Bush, Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas Prize, Education in Wales, Edward Thomas (poet), Emlyn Williams, Emyr Humphreys, Epic poetry, Eric Linklater, Existentialism, Fred Hando, Friedrich Nietzsche, ..., Gaelic literature, Gambling, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Geoffrey of Monmouth, George Frideric Handel, George Herbert, Geraint Goodwin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gifted (novel), Gillian Clarke, Glyn Jones (Welsh writer), Gododdin, Gomer Press, Grits (novel), Gwyn Jones (author), Gwyn Thomas (novelist), Gwyneth Lewis, Hardboiled, Harri Webb, Henry Vaughan, How Green Was My Valley, Idris Davies, Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, In Parenthesis, Irish literature, Jack Jones (novelist), James Hanley (novelist), Jan Morris, Jeremy Hooker, Jo Walton, John Clanvowe, John Cowper Powys, John Dyer, John Milton, John Ormond, Keidrych Rhys, Kemble family, Kingdom of Gwent, Leslie Norris, Lewis Jones (writer), List of miners' strikes, List of Welsh writers, Liverpool, Llandysul, Llŷn Peninsula, London, Mabinogion, Malcolm Pryce, Margiad Evans, Marxism, Medieval debate poetry, Meic Stephens, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire (historic), Montgomeryshire, My People (short story collection), National Assembly for Wales, National Theatre Wales, Neath, New Left, Newcastle Emlyn, Newport, Wales, Newtown, Powys, Niall Griffiths, Night Must Fall, Nikita Lalwani, Oliver Reynolds, Owen Glendower (novel), Oxford, Paul Groves (poet), Penarth, Peter Finch (poet), Peter George (author), Play (theatre), Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages, Prestatyn, R. S. Thomas, Radio drama, Raymond Garlick, Raymond Williams, Rhondda Roundabout, Rhymney, Rhys Davies (writer), Richard Burton, Richard Hughes (British writer), Richard Llewellyn, Roald Dahl, Robert Minhinnick, Roland Mathias, Ron Berry, Ruth Bidgood, Saunders Lewis, Scottish literature, Secretary of State for Wales, Sheenagh Pugh, Shetland, Siân James (novelist), South Wales Valleys, St Martin's Theatre, Stephen Knight (poet), Stephen Thomas Knight, Swansea, The Anglo-Welsh Review, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, The Corn Is Green, The Divine and the Decay, The Hiding Place (novel), Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Theatre of Wales, Tir na n-Og Award, Tony Conran, Tony Curtis (Welsh poet), Trezza Azzopardi, Under Milk Wood, University of Glamorgan, Vernon Watkins, W. H. Davies, Wales Book of the Year, Wallasey, Welsh language, Welsh Language Act 1967, Welsh mythology, Welsh nationalism, Welsh Office, Welsh orthography, Welsh people, Welsh-language literature, William Wordsworth, World War I in literature, Y Lolfa, 92nd Street Y. Expand index (132 more) »

Aberdare

Aberdare (Aberdâr) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and Cynon.

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Abergavenny

Abergavenny (Y Fenni, archaically Abergafenni meaning "Mouth of the River Gavenny") is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Aberystwyth University

Aberystwyth University (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales.

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Adam of Usk

Adam of Usk (Adda o Frynbuga, c. 1352 – 1430) was a Welsh priest, canonist, and late medieval historian and chronicler.

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Alexander Cordell

Alexander Cordell (9 September 1914 – 13 November 1997) was the pen-name of George Alexander Graber, a prolific Welsh novelist and author of thirty acclaimed works including Rape of the Fair Country, Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth.

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Allen Raine

Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adaliza Beynon Puddicombe (6 October 1836 – 21 June 1908).

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Alun Lewis (poet)

Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet.

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Alun Richards

Alun Morgun Richards (27 October 1929 – 2 June 2004) was a Welsh novelist, best known for his novel Ennal's Point, about the work of a lifeboat crew in South Wales.

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Angel Mountain Saga

The Angel Mountain Saga of eight novels was written by Welsh author Brian John, and was first published at the rate of one volume per year in 2001-2005, with later volumes in 2007, 2009 and 2012.

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Anglo-Scottish border

The Anglo-Scottish border between England and Scotland runs for 96 miles (154 km) between Marshall Meadows Bay on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.

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Angry young men

The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working- and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

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Arthur C. Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.

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Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century.

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Arts Council of Wales

The Arts Council of Wales (ACW; Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru) is a Welsh Government-sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.

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Awdl

In early Welsh literature, an awdl was any long poem on a single end-rhyme (the word is the same as odl, 'rhyme').

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Bernice Rubens

Bernice Rubens (26 July 1923 – 13 October 2004) was a Booker Prize-winning Welsh novelist.

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Bill Hopkins (novelist)

Bill Hopkins (5 May 1928 – 6 May 2011) was a Welsh novelist and journalist who has been grouped with the angry young men.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Brecknockshire

Brecknockshire (Sir Frycheiniog), also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, and a former administrative county.

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Breton literature

Breton literature may refer to literature in the Breton language (Brezhoneg) or the broader literary tradition of Brittany in the three other main languages of the area, namely, Latin, Gallo and French – all of which have had strong mutual linguistic and cultural influences.

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Brian John

Dr Brian S. John (born 1940) is a Welsh writer.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Caradoc Evans

David Caradoc Evans (31 December 1878 – 11 January 1945), was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally Sir Gâr) is a unitary authority in the southwest of Wales and is the largest of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county in the Mid Wales area of Wales and previously was a minor kingdom.

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Charles Kemble

Charles Kemble (25 November 1775 – 12 November 1854) was a British actor.

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Christopher Meredith

Christopher Meredith (born 1955) is a poet and novelist from Tredegar, Wales.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.

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Cornish literature

Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language.

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Cwmaman

Cwmaman is a former coal mining village near Aberdare, Wales.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Dannie Abse

Daniel Abse, CBE FRSL (22 September 1923 – 28 September 2014) was a Welsh poet and physician.

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David Jones (artist-poet)

Walter David Jones CH, CBE (known as David Jones, 1 November 1895 – 28 October 1974) was both a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets.

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David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and the final Liberal to serve as Prime Minister.

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Devolution in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, devolution (fèin-riaghlaidh, datganoli; Irish: Dílárú) refers to the statutory granting of powers from the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the London Assembly and to their associated executive bodies the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive and in England, the Greater London Authority and combined authorities.

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Dream vision

A dream vision or visio is a literary device in which a dream or vision is recounted as having revealed knowledge or a truth that is not available to the dreamer or visionary in a normal waking state.

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Duncan Bush

Duncan Bush (1946 – 18 August 2017) was a Welsh poet, novelist, dramatist (for film, TV, radio and stage), translator and documentary writer.

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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Dylan Thomas Prize

The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually.

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Education in Wales

Education in Wales differs in certain respects from education elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

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Edward Thomas (poet)

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist.

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Emlyn Williams

George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

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Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys (born 15 April 1919) is a leading Welsh novelist, poet and author.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Eric Linklater

Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Fred Hando

Frederick James "Fred" Hando MBE (23 March 1888 – 17 February 1970) was a Welsh writer, artist and schoolteacher from Newport who chronicled the history, character and folklore of Monmouthshire (which he also called Gwent), in a series of over 800 articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Gaelic literature

Gaelic literature (Litríocht na Gaeilge; Litreachas na Gàidhlig) is literature in the vernacular Gaelic languages of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

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Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.

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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber.

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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George Herbert

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England.

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Geraint Goodwin

Arthur Geraint Goodwin (1 May 1903 – 10 October 1941) was a Welsh journalist, novelist and short story writer from near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, who wrote about rural life on the Welsh border.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Gifted (novel)

Gifted is the debut novel by author Nikita Lalwani longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.

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Gillian Clarke

Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937 in Cardiff) is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator.

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Glyn Jones (Welsh writer)

Morgan Glyndwr Jones, generally known as Glyn Jones, (28 February 1905 – 10 April 1995) was a Welsh novelist, poet and literary historian, and an important figure in Anglo-Welsh literature.

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Gododdin

The Gododdin were a P-Celtic-speaking Brittonic people of north-eastern Britannia, the area known as the Hen Ogledd or Old North (modern south-east Scotland and north-east England), in the sub-Roman period.

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Gomer Press

Gomer Press (Welsh: Gwasg Gomer) is a family printing and publishing company based in Llandysul, west Wales.

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Grits (novel)

Grits is the debut novel by British author Niall Griffiths, published in 2000 by Jonathan Cape.

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Gwyn Jones (author)

Gwyn Jones (24 May 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history.

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Gwyn Thomas (novelist)

Gwyn Thomas (6 July 1913 – 13 April 1981) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, Punch-columnist, radio broadcaster and raconteur, who has been called "the true voice of the English-speaking valleys".

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Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959) is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005.

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Hardboiled

Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective stories).

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Harri Webb

Harri Webb (7 September 1920 – 31 December 1994) was a Welsh poet, Welsh nationalist, journalist and librarian.

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Henry Vaughan

Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author, translator and physician, who wrote in English.

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, narrated by Huw Morgan, the main character, about his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live.

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Idris Davies

Idris Davies (6 January 1905 – 6 April 1953) was a Welsh poet.

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Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal

Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480) was a Welsh poet, from Norman stock.

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In Parenthesis

In Parenthesis is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937.

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Irish literature

Irish literature comprises writings in the Irish, Latin, and English (including Ulster Scots) languages on the island of Ireland.

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Jack Jones (novelist)

Jack Jones CBE (24 November 1884 – 7 May 1970) was a Welsh miner, Trade Union official, politician, novelist and playwright.

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James Hanley (novelist)

James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 – 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Irish descent.

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Jan Morris

Jan Morris, CBE, FRSL (born 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer.

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Jeremy Hooker

Jeremy Hooker (born 1941, Warsash, Hampshire) is an English poet, critic, teacher, and broadcaster.

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Jo Walton

Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.

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John Clanvowe

Sir John Clanvowe (c.1341–1391) was an English diplomat, soldier and poet.

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John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys (8 October 187217 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet.

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John Dyer

John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Ormond

John Ormond (1923–1990), also known as John Ormond Thomas, was a Welsh poet and film-maker.

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Keidrych Rhys

William Ronald Rhys Jones (26 December 1915 – 22 May 1987), who used the name Keidrych Rhys, was a Welsh literary journalist and editor, and a poet.

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Kemble family

Kemble is the name of a family of English actors, who reigned over the English stage for many decades.

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Kingdom of Gwent

Gwent (Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk.

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Leslie Norris

George Leslie Norris FRSL (21 May 1921 – 6 April 2006), was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer.

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Lewis Jones (writer)

Lewis Jones, writer, and political activist of the left, (December 28 1897 – January 27, 1939) was born in Clydach Vale in industrialized South Wales.

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List of miners' strikes

Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions.

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List of Welsh writers

List of Welsh writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from Wales.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Llandysul

Llandysul is a small town and community in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.

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Llŷn Peninsula

The Llŷn Peninsula (Penrhyn Llŷn or italic) extends into the Irish Sea from north west Wales, south west of the Isle of Anglesey.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mabinogion

The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain.

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Malcolm Pryce

Malcolm Pryce (born 1960) is a British author, mostly known for his ''noir'' detective novels.

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Margiad Evans

Margiad Evans was the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler (17 March 1909 – 17 March 1958), an English poet, novelist and illustrator with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Medieval debate poetry

Medieval debate poetry refers to a genre of poems popular in England and France during the late medieval period (although broadly the same type of debate poems existed in the ancient and medieval Near Eastern literatures, as noted below).

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Meic Stephens

For the singer, see Meic Stevens. Meic Stephens (born 1938) is a Welsh literary editor, journalist, translator and poet.

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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

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Montgomeryshire

Montgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn (Sir Drefaldwyn meaning "the Shire of Baldwin's town") is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales.

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My People (short story collection)

My People is a collection of short stories by Caradoc Evans, first published in 1915 by Andrew Melrose and highly controversial at the time.

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National Assembly for Wales

The National Assembly for Wales (Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru; commonly known as the Welsh Assembly) is a devolved parliament with power to make legislation in Wales.

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National Theatre Wales

National Theatre Wales is the English language national theatre of Wales, and the UK’s youngest national theatre company.

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Neath

Neath (Castell-nedd) is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales with a population of 19,258 in 2011.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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Newcastle Emlyn

Newcastle Emlyn (Castellnewydd Emlyn) is a town straddling the border of the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire in west Wales and lying on the River Teifi; it is also a community entirely within Carmarthenshire.

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Newport, Wales

Newport (Casnewydd) is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales.

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Newtown, Powys

Newtown (Y Drenewydd) is the largest town in the county of Powys, Wales.

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Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales.

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Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935.

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Nikita Lalwani

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff, Wales.

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Oliver Reynolds

Oliver Reynolds (born 1957, in Cardiff, Wales) is a British poet and critic.

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Owen Glendower (novel)

Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Paul Groves (poet)

Paul Groves is a British poet and critic whose work has appeared in many literary periodicals and has won several prizes since he was first published in 1968.

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Penarth

Penarth is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg), Wales, approximately southwest of Cardiff city centre on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

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Peter Finch (poet)

Peter Finch (born 1947) is a Welsh author, historian and poet living in Cardiff, Wales.

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Peter George (author)

Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924 – 1 June 1966) was a Welsh author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, published initially with the title Two Hours To Doom and written using the pseudonym Peter Bryant.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

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Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages

Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages is a 1951 historical romance by John Cowper Powys.

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Prestatyn

Prestatyn is a seaside resort, town and community in Denbighshire, Wales.

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R. S. Thomas

Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Raymond Garlick

Raymond Garlick (21 September 1926 – 19 March 2011) was an Anglo-Welsh poet.

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Raymond Williams

Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic.

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Rhondda Roundabout

Rhondda Roundabout (1934) was the first published novel by the Welsh writer Jack Jones.

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Rhymney

Rhymney (Rhymni) is a town and a community located in the county borough of Caerphilly in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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Rhys Davies (writer)

Rhys Davies (9 November 1901 – 21 August 1978) (born Vivian Rees Davies) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton, CBE (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 19255 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Hughes (British writer)

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

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Richard Llewellyn

Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a British novelist.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robert Minhinnick

Robert Minhinnick (born 12 August 1952) is a Welsh poet, essayist, novelist and translator.

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Roland Mathias

Roland Glyn Mathias (4 September 1915 – 16 August 2007) was a Welsh writer, known for his poetry and short stories.

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Ron Berry

Ronald Anthony "Ron" Berry (23 February 1920 – 16 July 1997) was a Welsh author of novels and short stories.

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Ruth Bidgood

Ruth Bidgood (born Ruth Jones, 20 July 1922) is a Welsh poet and local historian, born at Blaendulais, Seven Sisters, near Neath, and writing in English.

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Saunders Lewis

Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist.

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Scottish literature

Scottish literature is literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers.

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Secretary of State for Wales

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Wales (Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru) is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales.

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Sheenagh Pugh

Sheenagh Pugh (born 20 December 1950) is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in English.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Siân James (novelist)

Siân James (born 1932) is a Welsh novelist, academic and translator, who writes in English.

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South Wales Valleys

The South Wales Valleys (Cymoedd De Cymru) are a group of industrialised valleys in South Wales.

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St Martin's Theatre

St Martin's Theatre is a West End theatre which has staged the production of The Mousetrap since March 1974, making it the longest continuous run of any show in the world.

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Stephen Knight (poet)

Stephen Knight (born 1960 in Swansea, Wales) is a British (Welsh) poet, novelist, theatre director and tutor in creative writing.

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Stephen Thomas Knight

Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.) PhD (Sydney).

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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The Anglo-Welsh Review

"The Anglo-Welsh Review" was a literary and cultural magazine published in Wales between 1949 and 1988.

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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940).

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The Corn Is Green

The Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Williams.

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The Divine and the Decay

The Divine and the Decay is a 1957 novel by the Welsh writer Bill Hopkins.

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The Hiding Place (novel)

The Hiding Place was the debut novel of Trezza Azzopardi, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

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Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru is the Welsh language national theatre of Wales, founded in 2003.

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Theatre of Wales

Theatre in Wales includes dramatic works in both the Welsh language and English language.

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Tir na n-Og Award

The Tir na n-Og Awards (abbreviated TnaO) are a set of annual children's literary awards in Wales from 1976.

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Tony Conran

Tony Conran (7 April 1931 – 14 January 2013) was an Anglo-Welsh poet and translator of Welsh poetry.

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Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)

Tony Curtis FRSL (born 1946) is a Welsh poet, who writes in English.

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Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a British writer.

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Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage.

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University of Glamorgan

The University of Glamorgan (Prifysgol Morgannwg) was a university based in South Wales prior to the merger with University of Wales, Newport, that formed the University of South Wales in April 2013.

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Vernon Watkins

Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet, translator and painter.

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W. H. Davies

William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer.

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Wales Book of the Year

The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors.

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Wallasey

Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.

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Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages.

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Welsh Language Act 1967

The Welsh Language Act 1967, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which gave some rights to use the Welsh language in legal proceedings in Wales (including Monmouthshire) and gave the relevant Minister the right to authorise the production of a Welsh version of any documents required or allowed by the Act.

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Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.

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Welsh nationalism

Welsh nationalism (Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig) emphasises the distinctiveness of Welsh language, culture, and history, and calls for more self-determination for Wales, which might include more devolved powers for the Welsh Assembly or full independence from the United Kingdom.

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Welsh Office

The Welsh Office (Swyddfa Gymreig) was a department in the Government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Wales.

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Welsh orthography

Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as established loanwords.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.

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Welsh-language literature

Welsh-language literature (llenyddiaeth Gymraeg) has been produced continuously since the emergence of Welsh from Brythonic as a distinct language c. 5th century AD.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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World War I in literature

Literature in World War I is generally thought to include poems, novels and drama; diaries, letters, and memoirs are often included in this category as well.

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Y Lolfa

Y Lolfa (Welsh for The Lounge) is a Welsh printing and publishing company based in Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion, in Mid-Wales.

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92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y (92Y) is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, USA, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_literature_in_English

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