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Writers of Wales: Kate Roberts
Writers of Wales: Kate Roberts
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyflwyniad i fywyd a gwaith Kate Roberts, brenhines llên Cymru.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
This is an introduction to the life and work of Kate Roberts, the most important woman writer ever to have emerged from Wales. It offers a comprehensive account of her life, from her birth into a life of poverty and hardship in the slate-quarrying region of Snowdonia to her death almost a hundred years later in Denbigh.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708323380
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708323380
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Writers of Wales: Kate Roberts
- Awdur / Author
- Gramich, Katie
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2011-04-06
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 126 pages
- Size
- 156 × 234 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Bywgraffiadau a Chofiannau (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywgraffiadau - Benyw (yn Saesneg) | EN: Biographies - Female (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Dr Katie Gramich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Kate Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Born into poverty, she attended University, at a time when very few Welsh women did, worked as an impassioned and inspirational teacher in the south Wales valleys, ran a major printing press and published the main Welsh national newspaper, Y Faner . She also helped to found Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist Party, campaigned tirelessly for the Welsh language, challenged gender stereotypes and restrictions in traditional patriarchal Wales. However, her main contribution was producing a body of literary work in the Welsh language which makes her rank alongside Saunders Lewis as the greatest Welsh writer of the twentieth century. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and ardent political campaigner to the attention of the wider world audience that the sheer quality of her writing deserves.
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