College of Arts and Humanities
A Academi Hywel Teifi Event
SpeakerYr Athro M. Wynn Thomas
Meic Stephens
Gwyn Griffiths
Professor M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and holder of the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at Swansea University. He is a specialist in the two literatures of Wales.
Meic Stephens is a literary editor, journalist, translator and poet. From 1967 until 1990 he was Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council. Before retiring he was professor of Welsh Writing in English at the University of Glamorgan.
Author and journalist Gwyn Griffths is co-editor of the Breton anthology, The Turn of the Ermine (2006), the first in the Francis Boutle Lesser Used Languages of Europe series. His other published works include travel books, translations of Breton plays into Welsh, a history of the Breton onion men and a history of the Welsh national anthem.
From: 29 Sep 2017, 7 p.m.To: 29 Sep 2017, 9 a.m.
Location: Ty r Gwrhyd , Stryd Holly, Pontardawe SA8 4ET
Professor M. Wynn Thomas from the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW) discusses The Old Red Tongue - a new anthology of the Literature of Wales, with the editors Meic Stephens and Gwyn Griffiths. Wine reception at 7pm and the discussion starts at 7.30pm. Free entry and all welcome. ( This is a Welsh medium event.)
Contact: Sioned Williams (Email: sioned.williams@abertawe.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792 606535
Event created by: sioned.williams