Angharad Price Explained
| Angharad Price |
| Birth Place: | Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
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| Alma Mater: | Jesus College, Oxford |
| Workplaces: | Bangor University |
Angharad Price FLSW is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.
Biography
Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales, the daughter of the Welsh historian .[1] She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.[2] She teaches at Bangor University and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.[3] 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] [3] [6] An English translation of the novel, called The Life of Rebecca Jones, was also published in 2010.[3] Her third novel, Caersaint, was published in 2010.[7]
In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.[8]
In 2015, Price was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[9]
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Notes and References
- News: Eisteddfod 2002 – Medal i Angharad. BBC . Welsh. Mae'n ferch i'r hanesydd a'r newyddiadurwr Emyr Price. [''She is the daughter of the historian and journalist Emyr Price''.]. 24 March 2009.
- News: New staff for Bangor's School of Welsh . Bangor University. 24 March 2009.
- News: Dr Angharad Price BA DPhil. Bangor University. 24 March 2009.
- News: Hay winner's search for identity. 27 May 2003. news.bbc.co.uk.
- News: Prose winner inspired by her family . Western Mail . 8 August 2002 .
- Book: Barnes, David. The Companion Guide to Wales . Companion Guides. 2005. 250. 978-1-900639-43-9.
- News: Caernarfon the star of new urban novel Caersaint. Caernarfon Herald. 11 March 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033956/http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/03/11/caernarfon-the-star-of-new-urban-novel-caersaint-88817-26006103/. 23 July 2011.
- Web site: Festival . MOMA Wales . 9 November 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150223111037/http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363 . 23 February 2015 . dead.
- Web site: Wales . The Learned Society of . Angharad Price . 2023-08-31 . The Learned Society of Wales . en-US.
