Modern Wales: Fury of Past Time - A Life of Gwyn Thomas

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico García Lorca and witnessed the turmoil which would lead to the Spanish Civil War. Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description: Cofiant i Gwyn Thomas, y cyw melyn olaf o ddwsin o blant a anwyd i deulu glofaol yng Nghwm Rhondda yn 1913. Wedi treulio ei blentyndod yng nghysgod streiciau'r 1920au, gadawodd y cwm i astudio Sbaeneg ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen a Madrid, lle cyfarfu â'r bardd Federico Garcia Lorca a lle y tystiodd i'r cythrwfl a arweiniodd at Ryfel Cartref Sbaen. Cyhoeddwr / Publisher: Parthian Books Categori / Category: Bywgraffiadau a Chofiannau (S) Awdur / Author: Daryl Leeworthy