Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys was born in 1919 in the north-east of Wales, the son of a schoolteacher. A conscientious objector during the war, he worked on a farm and then among refugees in Italy and the Near East. Having become a Welsh speaker during his studies at Aberystwyth, he campaigned all his life for the language and wrote in both. A teacher, then a producer of dramas for public radio, finally a lecturer in drama at Bangor, he published more than twenty novels in English, including a sequence of seven volumes on the Welsh century. He died in 2020.

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• NovelA Toy EpicEmyr Humphreys · 1958Literature