Emyr Humphreys (1919–2020)

Auteur de The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity

29+ oeuvres 206 utilisateurs 2 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

During a remarkable career spanning over seventy years as a writer, Emyr Humphreys has published more than two dozen novels (money of them prize-winning), as well as several collections of short stories.

Comprend les noms: Emyr Humphreys, Humphries Emyr

Séries

The Land of the Living sequence

Œuvres de Emyr Humphreys

Populaires Récent

The Taliesin Tradition: A Quest for the Welsh Identity (1983) 39 exemplaires

A Toy Epic (1958) — Auteur — 20 exemplaires

Penguin Modern Poets 27: John Ormond, Emyr Humphreys, John Tripp (1979) — Auteur — 19 exemplaires

Flesh and Blood (1974) 16 exemplaires

Outside the House of Baal (1965) 13 exemplaires

A Man's Estate (1955) 13 exemplaires

Salt of the Earth (1985) 9 exemplaires

The Best of Friends (1978) 9 exemplaires

Bonds of Attachment (1991) 7 exemplaires

Old People are a Problem (2003) 6 exemplaires

Unconditional Surrender (1996) 6 exemplaires

National winner (1971) 5 exemplaires

Open Secrets (1988) 5 exemplaires

An Absolute Hero (1986) 5 exemplaires

The Shop (2005) 5 exemplaires

The Woman at the Window (2009) 5 exemplaires

Ghosts and strangers (2001) 4 exemplaires

Jones: A Novel (1984) 3 exemplaires

The Gift of a Daughter (2000) 3 exemplaires

Landscapes : a sequence of songs 2 exemplaires

Hear and forgive (1971) 2 exemplaires

The Little Kingdom 2 exemplaires

Collected Poems of Emyr Humphreys (1999) 2 exemplaires

Emyr Humphries: Conversations and Reflections (2002) 1 exemplaire

The triple net: A portrait of the writer Kate Roberts, 1891-1985 (1988) 1 exemplaire

Miscellany two (1981) 1 exemplaire

Shards of Light (2019) 1 exemplaire

A Man S Estate (2023) 1 exemplaire

Ancestor Worship. A Cycle of Eighteen Poems. 1 exemplaire

Explorateur d'oeuvres

Oeuvres associées

The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories (1976) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires

Presenting Saunders Lewis (1973) — Traducteur — 13 exemplaires

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1955) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires

Glas-nos : poems for peace : an anthology for peace by the poets of Wales (1987) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance: 1919
Date de décès: 2020
Sexe: male
Nationalité: Wales
Lieu de naissance: Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales
Lieu du décès: Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Wales (at home)
Lieux de résidence: Prestatyn, North Wales, UK
Études: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Professions: teacher
producer
poet
novelist
conscientious objector (WWII)
Prix et distinctions: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Siân Phillips Award (2005)

Membres

Critiques

The Gift of a Daughter par Emyr Humphreys

A middle aged couple. Aled and Marian, worry when they meet their daughter's boyfriend and plan to send her to visit old family friends in Italy but things don't turn out as they wish. Later they take the trip themselves and become involved in another young girl's life - will they make the same mistakes?

This is a story that examines how well we know other people or indeed ourselves. As Aled looks back on his life and marriage; his student days and the future of his academic career can he still learn anything about himself and Marian and is their any hope for the future.

I liked the Welsh background and the relationships in this book. I also enjoyed the academic side and the contrast of life in Anglesey and Tuscany. The way the author weaves his story made it well worth reading.… (plus d'informations)

Signalé

calm | Apr 30, 2013 |

Hear and forgive par Emyr Humphreys

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1953, and it's easy to see why it would be rated highly: an amiable, if unobtrusive sense of humor, a reliably unreliable narrator, and a willingness to defy narrative expectations. The themes are important ones, too: the human tendency to build stories out of our rather shabby lives and the workings of conscience and, presumably, grace.

Signalé

jburlinson | Apr 5, 2011 |

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