Emyr Humphreys (1919–2020)

Auteur van The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity

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Over de Auteur

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.

Bevat de namen: Emyr Humphreys, Humphries Emyr

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Werken van Emyr Humphreys

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

A Toy Epic (1958) — Auteur — 20 exemplaren

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

Flesh and Blood (1974) 16 exemplaren

Outside the House of Baal (1965) 13 exemplaren

A Man's Estate (1955) 12 exemplaren

Salt of the Earth (1985) 9 exemplaren

The Best of Friends (1978) 9 exemplaren

Bonds of Attachment (1991) 7 exemplaren

Old People are a Problem (2003) 6 exemplaren

Unconditional Surrender (1996) 6 exemplaren

National winner (1971) 5 exemplaren

Open Secrets (1988) 5 exemplaren

An Absolute Hero (1986) 5 exemplaren

The Shop (2005) 5 exemplaren

The Woman at the Window (2009) 5 exemplaren

Ghosts and strangers (2001) 4 exemplaren

Jones: A Novel (1984) 3 exemplaren

The Gift of a Daughter (2000) 3 exemplaren

Landscapes : a sequence of songs 2 exemplaren

Hear and forgive (1971) 2 exemplaren

The Little Kingdom 2 exemplaren

Collected Poems of Emyr Humphreys (1999) 2 exemplaren

Emyr Humphries: Conversations and Reflections (2002) 1 exemplaar

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

Miscellany two (1981) 1 exemplaar

Shards of Light (2019) 1 exemplaar

A Man S Estate (2023) 1 exemplaar

Ancestor Worship. A Cycle of Eighteen Poems. 1 exemplaar

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The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories (1976) — Medewerker — 100 exemplaren

Presenting Saunders Lewis (1973) — Vertaler — 13 exemplaren

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

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

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Algemene kennis

Geboortedatum: 1919
Overlijdensdatum: 2020
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: Wales
Geboorteplaats: Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales
Plaats van overlijden: Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Wales (at home)
Woonplaatsen: Prestatyn, North Wales, UK
Opleiding: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Beroepen: teacher
producer
poet
novelist
conscientious objector (WWII)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Siân Phillips Award (2005)

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The Gift of a Daughter door 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.… (meer)

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calm | Apr 30, 2013 |

Hear and forgive door 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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