Authors
Earle, Jean
Jean Earle (1909-2002) lived in Wales for most of her 92 years. Her last collection, ’The Bed of Memory’, was shortlisted for the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award. Visiting Light (1987) and Selected Poems (1990) were a Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendation respectively.
Edwards, Dic
Dic Edwards was born in Cardiff and has had twenty full-length plays produced throughout the UK. He is a Creative Writing Fellow at Lampeter University. He lives with his wife and daughter in Aberaeron on the west coast of Wales.
Evans, Caradoc
Caradoc Evans (1878-1945) short story writer and novelist was born in west Wales. A controversial figure he worked in Carmarthen and London in the drapery trade before becoming a journalist and editor. His first book of stories, My People (1915) brought instant infamy for its portrayal of the west Wales peasantry and made him, for many years, the most hated man in Wales.
Evans, Christine
Christine Evans taught English on the Llyn Peninsula, where she lives with her husband and son on a farm. Her first collection, Looking Inland, was described as having 'something to say that is worth saying...a sane response to experience' . Her work is widely pubished; Seren produced four collections: Looking Inland, Falling Back, Cometary Phases and Island of Dark Horses.
Evans, Margiad
Margiad Evans (1909-1958) was born in Uxbridge, London and moved to Ross on Wye in 1920. She was the author of four novels, ’Country Dance’, ’The Wooden Doctor’, ’Turf or Stone’ and ’Creed’. Her short stories, a genre which includes some of her finest writing, were collected in the volume ’The Old and the Young’ and her verse in ’Poems from Obscurity’ and ’A Candle Ahead’. She also wrote two autobiographical works ’Autobiography’ and ’A Ray of Darkness’ in which she wrote movingly and with dignity about the onset of epilepsy and her search for God.
Evans, Richard John
Richard John Evans is a journalist on the Wales on Sunday newspaper. He took an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan for which he received a distinction. He is currently working on his second novel about urban blight.
