Literature

Albert Evans Jones (Cynan)

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

Alice Helena Alexandra Williams (Alys Meirion)

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

Amy Roberta (‘Berta’) Ruck

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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), published in 1961, is considered a classic of Welsh literature. The novel portrays the author's childhood in the Ogwen valley at the turn of the 20th century, and refers to events that happened to Caradog Pritchard himself

Charlotte Guest

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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.

David John Williams

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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

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

Dylan Thomas

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

Elizabeth Amy Dillwyn

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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

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

Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn)

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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.