Glyn Jones (Wales)

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Glyn Jones (28 February 1905 – 10 April 1995) was a 20th century Welsh author and important figure in Anglo-Welsh literature.^[1] He also served as both Chairman and President of the Welsh Academy's English-language section.^[2] In one of his most important works, The Dragon Has Two Tongues, he discusses the ways that the period between the wars affected his generation of Welsh authors.^[1]

[edit] Published works

Novels

• The Valley, The City, The Village (1956)
• The Learning Lark (1960)
• The Island of Apples (1965)

Poetry

• Poems (1939)
• The Dream of Jake Hopkins (1944)
• Selected Poems (1975)
• Selected Poems: fragments and fictions (1988)
• The Collected Poems of Glyn Jones (edited by Meic Stephens) (1996)

Short Stories

• The Blue Bed (1937)
• The Water Music and other stories (1944)
• Selected Short Stories (1971)
• Welsh Heirs (1977)
• The Collected Stories of Glyn Jones (edited and introduction by Tony Brown) (1999)

Translations

• The Saga of Llywarch the Old: a reconstruction by Glyn Jones with the verse and interludes (with T.J.Morgan) (1955)
• When the Rose Bush brings forth Apples (1981)
• Honeydew on the Wormwood: a further selection of old Welsh verses (1984)
• The Story of Heledd (with T.J.Morgan, edited by Jenny Morgan) (1994)
• A People’s Poetry: hen benillion (1997)

Criticism

• The Dragon Has Two Tongues (1968) (2001)
• Profiles: a visitor’s guide to writing in twentieth century Wales (with John Rowlands) (1980)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Obituary in The Independent
2. ^ Glyn Jones (Writers of Wales Series)

[edit] External links

• The Glyn Jones Centre
• The Ex-Centric Voice: The English-Language Short Story in Wales by Tony Brown