Kate Roberts

Kate Roberts was born on 13 February 1891 in Rhosgadfan, in Caernarfonshire, the daughter of a slate quarryman. A graduate in Welsh from Bangor, she taught the language in the south of the country, lost a brother in the war in 1917 and said she had begun to write because of it. A nationalist activist from the earliest days, she bought with her husband a printing press and a Welsh-language newspaper, which they ran for twenty years. Widowed, she wrote until the age of ninety, published some twenty books and was put forward for the Nobel Prize in 1963. She died on 14 April 1985, aged ninety-four.

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• NovelTraed mewn CyffionKate Roberts · 1936Literature