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00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 6 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM Writers of Wales Gwenlyn Parry 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 1 7/24/2013 2:46:45 PM Editors: Meic Stephens Jane Aaron M. Wynn Thomas Honorary Series Editor: R. Brinley Jones Other titles in the Writers of Wales series: Welsh Periodicals in English 1882–2012 (2013), Malcolm Ballin Ruth Bidgood (2012), Matthew Jarvis Dorothy Edwards (2011), Claire Flay Kate Roberts (2011), Katie Gramich Geoffrey of Monmouth (2010), Karen Jankulak Herbert Williams (2010), Phil Carradice Rhys Davies (2009), Huw Osborne R. S. Thomas (2006), Tony Brown Ben Bowen (2003), T. Robin Chapman James Kitchener Davies (2002), M. Wynn Thomas 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 2 7/24/2013 2:46:45 PM Writers of Wales Gwenlyn Parry Roger Owen University of Wales Press Cardiff 2013 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 3 7/24/2013 2:46:46 PM © Roger Owen, 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the University of Wales Press, 10 ColumbusWalk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP. www.uwp.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-7083-2662-6 e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2663-3 The right of Roger Owen to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The publisher acknowledges the financial support of the Welsh Books Council. Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Fenn Typesetting, Cardiff Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 4 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM To Sally, with all my love 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 5 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 6 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM Contents Acknowledgements ix List of illustrations xi Introduction xiii 1 ‘Llanbabo it is to us and Llanbabo it will remain’: Early Life 1 2 ‘God help me, I cannot escape from this’: Three Short Plays 13 3 ‘A kind of self-therapy’: Saer Doliau 31 4 ‘A revolution . . . where one man takes over the empire of the other’: T} ar y Tywod 45 5 ‘A Welsh Tom and Jerry’: Fo a Fe and Y Ffin 60 6 ‘In the middle of the seventies experience’: Pobol y Cwm and Grand Slam 78 7 ‘They will also argue and fight and talk about their fear of death etc.’: Y T{r 88 8 ‘You know who’s in the balance?’: Sal 108 9 ‘Any bloody fool can play dame’: Panto 121 10 ‘Everything will be fine now, you’ll see’: Later Life 137 Postscript 145 Notes 147 Select Bibliography 160 Index 167 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 7 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM 00 Prelims Gwenlyn 2013_7_24.indd 8 7/24/2013 2:46:47 PM
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