Gwyn Thomas

Gwyn Thomas was born on 6 July 1913 in Cymmer, in the Rhondda valley, the youngest of the twelve children of a miner; his mother died when he was six and a sister raised him, with the help of the soup kitchen. A scholarship took him to Oxford, where he felt a stranger, then to Spain. He taught Spanish in a Welsh grammar school for twenty years while writing in the evenings. He refused to learn Welsh, the language of his grandparents, and said so publicly, which earned him lasting enmities. He died on 13 April 1981.

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• Short storiesThe Dark PhilosophersGwyn Thomas · 1946Literature