Emyr Humphreys

Conversations and Reflections

Author(s) Emyr Humphreys

Editor(s) M. Wynn Thomas

Language: English

Genre(s): Welsh Interest

Series: Writing Wales in English

  • March 2004 · 256 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708317358

This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout Humphreys' work.

' ... a fascinating work of one of Wales's most significant creative writers and cultural activists.' The Western Mail 'We must be grateful to editor Wynn Thomas and the University of Wales Press for gathering together for this volume a batch of Emyr Humphreys's "occasional writings" and for presenting them with such originality, wrapped in a sequence of perceptive interviews between editor and author ... an indispensable guide ... ' Gwales

Author(s): Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys is one of Wales's foremost novelists and author of 21 novels, including a past winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and works that are now set texts at A-Level. He is the author of volumes of poetry, short stories, cultural criticism and has also written a selected history of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition.

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Author(s): M. Wynn Thomas

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Emyr Humphreys Professor of English at Swansea University; he is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of twenty books on the two literatures of Wales and on American poetry.

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