Emyr Humphreys (1919–2020)

Autore di The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity

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Sull'Autore

During a remarkable career spanning over seventy years as a writer, Emyr Humphreys has published more than two dozen novels (money of them prize-winning), as well as several collections of short stories.

Comprende i nomi: Emyr Humphreys, Humphries Emyr

Serie

The Land of the Living sequence

Opere di Emyr Humphreys

Popolari Recenti

The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity (1983) 39 copie

A Toy Epic (1958) — Autore — 20 copie

Penguin Modern Poets 27: John Ormond, Emyr Humphreys, John Tripp (1979) — Autore — 19 copie

Flesh and Blood (1974) 16 copie

Outside the House of Baal (1965) 13 copie

A Man's Estate (1955) 12 copie

Salt of the Earth (1985) 9 copie

The Best of Friends (1978) 9 copie

Bonds of Attachment (1991) 7 copie

Old People are a Problem (2003) 6 copie

Unconditional Surrender (1996) 6 copie

National winner (1971) 5 copie

Open Secrets (1988) 5 copie

An Absolute Hero (1986) 5 copie

The Shop (2005) 5 copie

The Woman at the Window (2009) 5 copie

Ghosts and strangers (2001) 4 copie

Jones: A Novel (1984) 3 copie

The Gift of a Daughter (2000) 3 copie

Landscapes : a sequence of songs 2 copie

Hear and forgive (1971) 2 copie

The Little Kingdom 2 copie

Collected Poems of Emyr Humphreys (1999) 2 copie

Emyr Humphries: Conversations and Reflections (2002) 1 copia

The triple net: A portrait of the writer Kate Roberts, 1891-1985 (1988) 1 copia

Miscellany two (1981) 1 copia

Shards of Light (2019) 1 copia

A Man S Estate (2023) 1 copia

Ancestor Worship. A Cycle of Eighteen Poems. 1 copia

Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories (1976) — Collaboratore — 100 copie

Presenting Saunders Lewis (1973) — Traduttore — 13 copie

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1955) — Collaboratore — 6 copie

Glas-nos : poems for peace : an anthology for peace by the poets of Wales (1987) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

Etichette

$ Welsh - Ethnic identity (1) 2000-books (1) 2000-books-wales (1) Anglo-Welsh (3) Autobiografia (1) Celtic (2) chimaera press (1) coming of age fiction (1) Critica letteraria (2) da leggere (2) edizione limitata (1) Galles (34) gallese (3) Land of the Living series (3) Large Print (2) Letteratura (9) letteratura del XX secolo (2) letteratura gallese (14) Letteratura inglese (3) Lingua gallese (3) Mitologia (2) Narrativa (22) Nonesuch Press (1) North Wales (2) Poesia (8) private press (1) Prosa (4) racconti (3) recycled (1) Romanzo (7) saggi (2) Seconda guerra mondiale (2) stordy blwch 99 (1) Storia (5) Storia del Galles (3) tradotto (1) USA (1) Wales - fiction (1) Welsh writing in English (14) Z (1)

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1919
Data di morte: 2020
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Wales
Luogo di nascita: Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales
Luogo di morte: Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Wales (at home)
Luogo di residenza: Prestatyn, North Wales, UK
Istruzione: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Attività lavorative: teacher
producer
poet
novelist
conscientious objector (WWII)
Premi e riconoscimenti: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Siân Phillips Award (2005)

Utenti

Recensioni

The Gift of a Daughter di Emyr Humphreys

A middle aged couple. Aled and Marian, worry when they meet their daughter's boyfriend and plan to send her to visit old family friends in Italy but things don't turn out as they wish. Later they take the trip themselves and become involved in another young girl's life - will they make the same mistakes?

This is a story that examines how well we know other people or indeed ourselves. As Aled looks back on his life and marriage; his student days and the future of his academic career can he still learn anything about himself and Marian and is their any hope for the future.

I liked the Welsh background and the relationships in this book. I also enjoyed the academic side and the contrast of life in Anglesey and Tuscany. The way the author weaves his story made it well worth reading.… (altro)

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calm | Apr 30, 2013 |

Hear and forgive di Emyr Humphreys

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1953, and it's easy to see why it would be rated highly: an amiable, if unobtrusive sense of humor, a reliably unreliable narrator, and a willingness to defy narrative expectations. The themes are important ones, too: the human tendency to build stories out of our rather shabby lives and the workings of conscience and, presumably, grace.

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jburlinson | Apr 5, 2011 |

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