Angharad Price


Angharad Price is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.

Angharad Price
Born1972 (age 49–50)
Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales
NationalityWelsh
OccupationNovelist
Academic background
Alma materJesus College, Oxford
Academic work
InstitutionsBangor University

Biography

Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales,[1] the daughter of the Welsh historian Emyr Price.[2] She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.[3] She teaches at Bangor University and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.[1] She currently lives in Caernarfon.

Price's first novel, Tania’r Tacsi, was published in 1999. Her second novel, O! Tyn y Gorchudd!, won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2002 and was named Welsh Language Book of the Year by the Welsh Arts Council at the Hay Festival in 2003.[4][5][1][6] An English translation of the novel, called The Life of Rebecca Jones, was also published in 2010.[1] Her third novel, Caersaint, was published in 2010.[7]

In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.[8]

References
  1. "Dr Angharad Price BA DPhil". Bangor University. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  2. "Eisteddfod 2002 – Medal i Angharad" (in Welsh). BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2009. Mae'n ferch i'r hanesydd a'r newyddiadurwr Emyr Price. [She is the daughter of the historian and journalist Emyr Price.]
  3. "New staff for Bangor's School of Welsh". Bangor University. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  4. Hay winner's search for identity, BBC News
  5. Prose winner inspired by her family, Western Mail, 8 August 2002
  6. Barnes, David (2005). The Companion Guide to Wales. Companion Guides. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-900639-43-9.
  7. Caernarfon Herald
  8. MOMA Wales website. Accessed 9 November 2014
  • [www.walesartsreview.org/greatest-welsh-novel-22-the-life-of-rebecca-jones-by-angharad-price-translated-by-lloyd-jones Review of the English language version of O Tyn y Gorchudd]
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