Emyr Humphreys

M Wynn Thomas (Swansea University)

Ed. by Rita Singer, Aberystwyth University, Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.2: Welsh Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Kirsti Bohata (Swansea University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele), Rita Singer (Aberystwyth University)

Dates

Born 15 Apr 1919
Died 30 Sep 2020
Activity 1946-2020

Places

Born in Wales
Active in Wales; England

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Other

Radio Broadcaster / Producer
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Humphreys' Works

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Emyr Owen Humphreys, who celebrated his hundredth birthday in 2019 by publishing a collection of new poems, is widely regarded as the leading anglophone fiction writer of twentieth-century Wales, its most distinguished person of letters, and a giant figure on the country’s post-war cultural scene. In addition to publishing over two dozen fictional works and several volumes of poetry, he has produced a classic cultural history of Wales (

The Taliesin Tradition

, 1983), written a number of television plays for the Welsh-medium television channel (S4C) that he had vigorously campaigned to have established, directed several documentaries, and been a prominent cultural commentator and political activist on behalf of the Welsh language and Welsh self-determination. His distinguished friends and…

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Citation: Thomas, M Wynn. "Emyr Humphreys". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 April 2020 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12960, accessed 21 November 2024.]