- 'Cynan Jones. 'The Long Dry'. Small masterpiece. WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME?' @jon_mcgregor Buy 'The Long Dry' for £6.99 http://t.co/vlucXQTR — 23 weeks 3 days ago
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Dai Smith was born in the Rhondda in 1945 and educated at Porth County and Barry Grammar School. He read History and Literature at Balliol College, Oxford; Columbia University, New York; and University of Wales, Swansea.
Tyler was raised in Vancouver, Canada. He first came to the UK in 1999 to study English at Lancaster University. He returned home to finish his degree, and after graduating undertook a variety of bizarre jobs, working as a treeplanter, a landscape gardener, a deckhand on a fishing barge, a ‘greenhorn’ in the shipyards, a restaurant busser and a kayak shop assistant. After paying back his student loan, and saving up some money,
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966, studied English, and now lives and works in Aberystwyth. His first four nobels are Grits (2000), a tale of addicts and drifters in rural Wales; Sheepshagger (2001), the story of Ianto, a feral mountain boy; Kelly & Victor (2002); and Stump (2003), which won two Book of the Year awards. Grits was made into a film for television, and Kelly & Victor and Stump are being made into films.
Wil Gritten was raised happily in North wales without toy guns or television. At sixteen he left home and moved to Brixton under the pretence of becoming a carpenter.
J.P.Smythe was born in 1980 in West London, and migrated to Wales where his maternal family lived. He has a PhD from Cardiff University, currently teaches in various places, intermittently performs in an improvised comedy group and has recently authored a book about Twitter.
Stevie Davies was born in Swansea, but had a nomadic childhood, living in Egypt, Scotland and Germany. After studying at Manchester University, she went on to lecture there, returning to Swansea in 2001. She is Director of Creative Writing Swansea University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Stevie regularly writes for the Guardian and Independent newspapers alongside her fiction writing.
Bryony Rheam was born in Kadoma in 1974 and lived in Bulawayo from the age of eight until she left school.
"Slowly, in my life, I have learned that I was born to be a wanderer. It has simply taken time to lose the fear, and do it." John Harrison from Cloud Road
Cynan Jones was born in Wales in 1975. He determined that at twenty-eight he would make writing his primary occupation for two years.