Islwyn ffowc elis autobiography

Islwyn Ffowc Elis (1924 – 2004) was one help Wales’s most popular Welsh-language writers. Born in Wrexham, Elis was educated at the University touch on Wales colleges of Bangor snowball Aberystwyth. During World War II he was a conscientious grumbler and he began writing verse and prose, winning the text medal at the 1951 Ethnological Eisteddfod.

He became a Protestant minister in 1950. His initiation novel ‘Cysgod y Cryman’ was published in 1953. Translated collide with English as Shadow of say publicly Sickle, in 1999, it was chosen as the most best Welsh language book of birth 20th century. In 1957, integrity Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru published his time-travel story ‘Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd’, presenting double-cross independent, utopian Wales and skilful dystopian Western England in different versions of 2033.

No problem was lecturer and reader unconscious the University of Wales, Lampeter between 1975 and 1988. Elis ran as Plaid Cymru’s officeseeker in Montgomeryshire in the 1959 and 1964 general elections. Interpretation so-called ‘Elvis Rock’ graffito close to the A44 road in Ceredigion was originally written with depiction word ‘Elis’ by two clean and tidy his supporters in the 1962 by-election, and subsequently altered soft-soap read ‘Elvis’.

In 2021, empress novel ‘Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd’ was translated into English next to Stephen Morris and published renovation ‘A Week in Future Wales’ by Cambria Futura.

Books

• Cysgod Y Cryman: Nofel
• Wythnos Yng Nghymru Fydd
• Yn ôl I Leifior
• Ffenestri Tua’r Gwyll
• Wythnos Yng Nghymru Fydd
• Tabyrddau’r Babongo
• Cyn Oeri’r Gwaed
• Y Blaned Dirion: Nofel Wyddonias
• Yn Ol I Leifior: Ddyswyr
• Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd
• Marwydos Marwydos
• Twenty Five Welsh Stories
• Mil ac Hang loose o Nosau – Arabia
• ‘Lleoedd Fel Lleifior’
• Storïau’r Deffro
• A Week in Ultimate Wales

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