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Idwal Jones (writer)

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Name
  
Idwal Jones

Role
  
Novelist

Awards
  
John Newbery Medal


Died
  
1964, Laguna Beach, California, United States

Books
  
High bonnet, Whistler's Van, The vineyard, Ark of Empire: San Francisco's Montgomery Block, China Boy

Richard Idwal Mervyn Jones (8 June 1895 – 18 May 1937) was a Welsh schoolmaster, poet and dramatist.

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Jones was born at Rhoslwyn, Lampeter, the son of D. Teifi Jones, a well-known local politician and eisteddfodwr. Following army service during the First World War, Idwal Jones entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he met D. Gwenallt Jones, who would later write his biography. After graduating, he became a schoolteacher at Devil's Bridge.

Plays

  • Pobl yr Ymylon (1927)
  • P'un (1927)
  • Yr Anfarwol Ifan Harris (1928)
  • Sh — ! Dim Swn (1936)
  • Yr Eosiaid (1936)
  • Poetry

  • Cerddi Digri a Rhai Pethau Eraill (1934)
  • Cerddi Digri Newydd a Phethau o'r Fath (1937)
  • Ystorïau a Pharodïau (1944)
  • References

    Idwal Jones (writer) Wikipedia