Gwyn Thomas (novelist)

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Gwyn Thomas (July 6, 1913 – April 13, 1981) was a Welsh writer who has been called 'the true voice of the English-speaking valleys'.

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[edit] Life

Gwyn Thomas was born in the Rhondda valley, the son of a coalminer. He studied Spanish at Oxford University, and also spent six months at the University of Madrid thanks to a miners' scholarship. He also taught at the WEA in South Wales before becoming a schoolteacher.

A prolific novelist and short-story writer, he became a full-time writer and broadcaster in 1962.

[edit] Bibliographic Works

[edit] Novels

  • A Welsh Eye (Drawings by John Dd. Evans) [1]
  • Where Did I Put My Pity? [1]
  • The World Cannot Hear You [1]
  • Point Of Order [1]
  • The Love Man [1]
  • Now Lead Us Home [1]
  • The Stranger At My Side [1]
  • Gazooka [1]
  • Ring Delirium 123 [1]
  • The Dark Philosophers (1946)
  • The Alone to The Alone (1947)
  • All Things Betray Thee (1949)
  • A Frost on My Frolic (1953)
  • Sorrow For Thy Sons (1986)

[edit] Plays

  • The Keep (1962)
  • Sap (1974)
  • The Breakers (1976)
  • Loud Organs [1]
  • Jackie The Jumper [1]

[edit] Autobiography

  • A Few Selected Exits (1968)

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Detail from the copy of book entitled A Welsh Eye - First edition published by Hutchinson London in 1964 with no ISBN.

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