Fury of Past Time — A Life of Gwyn Thomas

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae'r cofiant nodedig hwn, a gyfoethogwyd â deunydd o bapurau preifat ac archifau rhyngwladol, yn adrodd hanes un o leisiau llên pennaf Cymru.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This landmark biography, enriched with unrivalled access to private papers and international archives, tells the remarkable story of one of modern Wales's greatest literary voices.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Daryl Leeworthy is the Rhys Davies Trust Research Fellow at Swansea University, where he works on the cultural and political history of modern Wales. His several books include Labour Country: Political Radicalism and Social Democracy in South Wales, 1831-1985 (2018) and A Little Gay History of Wales (2019).

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

'This punchy portrait of a real Welsh literary heavyweight hits home with the brutal realism of Thomas' jabbing prose and mordant wit.' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru 'Leeworthy knows his subject intimately, sympathises with him entirely, and locates him globally in such a way as to leave the reader with no doubt as to his importance as a writer' – Bethan Jenkins, Wales Arts Review Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico García Lorca and witnessed the turmoil which would lead to the Spanish Civil War. On his return, amidst the economic mire of the 1930s and his own burgeoning teaching career in Barry in the 1940s, he picked up his pen and began to write. For more than forty years, until his death in 1981, as novelist, screenwriter, master of the short story, and prizewinning playwright, Gwyn Thomas delivered compelling and comedic portraits of his world of South Wales.