Angharad Price
Angharad Price is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.
Biography[]
Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales,[1] the daughter of the Welsh historian .[2] She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.[3] She teaches at Bangor University and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.[1] She currently lives in Caernarfon.
Price's first novel, Tania’r Tacsi, was published in 1999. Her second novel, O! Tyn y Gorchudd!, won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2002 and was named Welsh Language Book of the Year by the Welsh Arts Council at the Hay Festival in 2003.[4][5][1][6] An English translation of the novel, called The Life of Rebecca Jones, was also published in 2010.[1] Her third novel, Caersaint, was published in 2010.[7]
In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.[8]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Dr Angharad Price BA DPhil". Bangor University. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
- ^ "Eisteddfod 2002 – Medal i Angharad" (in Welsh). BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
Mae'n ferch i'r hanesydd a'r newyddiadurwr Emyr Price. [She is the daughter of the historian and journalist Emyr Price.]
- ^ "New staff for Bangor's School of Welsh". Bangor University. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
- ^ Hay winner's search for identity, BBC News
- ^ Prose winner inspired by her family, Western Mail, 8 August 2002
- ^ Barnes, David (2005). The Companion Guide to Wales. Companion Guides. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-900639-43-9.
- ^ Caernarfon Herald
- ^ MOMA Wales website. Accessed 9 November 2014
External links[]
- [www.walesartsreview.org/greatest-welsh-novel-22-the-life-of-rebecca-jones-by-angharad-price-translated-by-lloyd-jones Review of the English language version of O Tyn y Gorchudd]
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