Ratcliffe, Denis F.

Denis F. Ratcliffe (- 2004) worked in the City, turning to writing after disability caused his early retirement.

Rees, Lloyd

Lloyd Rees is a Senior Lecturer in English and Education in Swansea. In addition to his novels he is a published poet and co-editor of the magazine Roundyhouse.

Rees-Jones, Deryn

Deryn Rees-Jones was educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, and Birkbeck College, London. She is an Eric Gregory Award winner, and The Memory Tray was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. In 1996 she received an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award. She lives in Liverpool, where she lectures at the University of Liverpool.

Rhydderch, Samantha Wynne

Samantha Wynne Rhydderch was born in 1966 and comes from a seafaring family in New Quay, West Wales. She studied Classics at Cambridge and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. In 1996 she received an award to write her first pamphlet, Stranded on Ithaca, (Redbeck Press, 1998). Widely published in periodicals, she has read her poems at a number of venues including the Hay-On-Wye Literature Festival and a recent Poetry Wales Launch in Amsterdam. For more information about Samantha Wynne Rhydderch visit her website www.rhydderch.com.

Richards, Alun

Alun Richards (1929 - 2004) was born in Pontypridd. His books include six novels and several collections of short stories - most notably, ’Home to an Empty House’, ’Dai Country’, ’The Former Miss Merthyr Tydfil’ and ’Ennal’s Point’. He was the editor of ’The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories’ and ’The Penguin Book of Sea Stories’ (volumes 1 and 2). His collected plays are published as ’Plays for Players’ and he wrote extensively for radio and television, including early contributions to ’The Onedin Line’. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University College of Swansea in 1985.

Roberts, Dewi

Dewi Roberts, who lives in Denbighshire, is well known in Wales as an anthologist. His regional compilations include Visitors' Delight and A Clwyd Anthology. He has published a travel book, The Land of Old Renown, and is an essaysist and reviewer for a number of publications. Apart from literature, his main interest is local history.

Roberts, Kate

Kate Roberts (1891 - 1985) was born in Rhosgadfan near Caernarfon, in Wales’ slate-quarrying heartland. Widely regarded as the twentieth century’s outstanding Welsh-language novelist, she defined Welsh fiction for decades, and as publisher, critic and political activist had a huge influence on Welsh culture.

Roberts, William Owen

Wiliam Owen Roberts was born in 1960. He was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he studied Welsh Literature and Drama. He has worked as a script editor and writer for HTV and is now a freelance writer, mainly for television. He has published two novels, Bingo! (1985) and Y PIa (1987) and and has recently completed a third Paradwys. Y PIa won the Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize in 1988 and has been translated into several European languages. He received a Welsh Arts Council Bursary for his volume of long short stories Hunangofiant, published in 1990.

Rodgers, Don

Don Rodgers' prizewinning poetry has been published in a number of magazines and anthologies. He is also the author of published short stories as well as plays, and numbers among his interests natural history and languages. He lives and works in Swansea.