Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council was then called) to fund the institution and he then began the major task of developing the book trade in Wales. Among his many achievements were the establishment of a wholesale operation for publishers and booksellers, the introduction of specialist services to help publishers improve standards of book production (with the assistance of Meic Stephens, Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer pulling at his heartstrings and they left Phyllis's homeland in 1960 when he was appointed to succeed Cynan in the Department of Extramural Studies at Bangor. He would soon change direction again, however, and take up the post of Head of Light Entertainment at BBC Wales in 1963. He spent an exceptionally successful decade setting up a new service, identifying talents such as Meic Stevens, Ryan Davies
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Bangor to do research on the behaviour of X-rays, and in 1942 she became the first woman to receive a PhD in physics at the College. The foundations of her character - a multi-talented, determined, energetic, principled woman - were in place. She also possessed considerable beauty, and in Bangor found her life partner, Harri Gwynn Jones (1913-1985). In his obituary of Eirwen, Meic Stephens describes
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster Cymru. By 1938 Harri Gwynn, as he now called himself (although he would not formally and legally drop the 'Jones' until 1944), had completed his MA on the Dolobran Quaker, John Kelsall, and was a lecturer with the Workers' Education Association. In 1936 Harri, 'one of the most talented and debonair Bohemians of his generation', according to Meic Stephens, met the science student who would become his
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Golau yn y Gwyll, was published in 1988, and part of Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas was translated by Luned Meredith for A Cardiff Anthology edited by Meic Stephens in 1987. A recording of him reading two of his poems, 'Ar Ymweliad' and 'Gwyn Fyd y Griafolen', can be heard on the CD Lleisiau Beirdd Cymru ['Voices of Poets of Wales'] released by Sain in 2014. For the last nine years of his life he was in such
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet he was one of the chief consultants for the major Companion to the literatures of Wales (ed. Meic Stephens), until he completely lost patience with it because it contained 'much stuff that has nothing at all to do with the literature of Wales, Welsh or English.' He was unflinchingly plainspeaking: his tongue like his fountain-pen could be very sharp. His bearing alone was enough to frighten some
STEPHENS, MEIC - see STEPHENS, MICHAEL
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Meic Stephens was born on 23 July 1938 at 50 Meadow Street, Treforest, the eldest child of Arthur Stephens, a power station worker, and his wife Alma (née Symes). He had a younger brother from whom he became estranged. Treforest then was a world of coal, industry and rail tracks, English-speaking but intensely Welsh in character. Stephens attended Pontypridd Boys Grammar School and then studied
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet poem published in 1949. In 1954 he moved to Merthyr to take up the post of librarian in Dowlais, a calling he followed for 20 years without ever taking a professional qualification. He lived at Garth Newydd, a house on Brecon Road which seemed to belong to nobody and became a nationalist commune, including among its residents Meic Stephens, who became his close friend and editor. After 10 years at

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