Literature

Cynan is famous for being a poet, dramatist and ‘Eisteddfodwr’.

Alice Williams is famous for being a writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker. Her bardic name was Alys Meirion.

Berta Ruck is famous for being a novelist.

Caradog Prichard is famous as a journalist, and award-winning poet and writer. His novel 'Un Nos Ola Leuad' (One Moonlight Night) is considered a classic of Welsh literature.

Charlotte Guest was the first person to translate the 'Mabinogi' into English. She devised the title 'The Mabinogion'. She was a translator, linguist, entrepreneur, author and art collector.

D. J. Williams is famous as an author and as one of the three convicted of burning down a Bombing School in Penyberth, Gwynedd.

Dorothy Noel Bonarjee is famous for being a poet and solicitor.

Dylan Thomas is famous for being a poet, playwright and author.

Elizabeth Amy Dillwyn was a novelist, feminist campaigner, and an early industrialist. She wrote some of the first lesbian novels to appear in print.

Elizabeth Watkin-Jones is famous for being a children’s author.

Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn) is famous for being a poet. He is among a generation of poets and writers who fought in the First World War and is seen as one of the 'war poets' of that time.

Eluned Morgan is famous for being an author.

Kate Roberts is regarded as Wales’s most prominent writer in the 20th century.

T.Llew Jones is famous for being a poet and a prolific writer. 

Waldo was a poet and pacifist from Pembrokeshire. He was often referred to by his first name only.

William Williams, Pantycelyn, is famous for being an author and hymn-writer.