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Ceredigion's literary connections include writers whose work challenges comfortable pictures of rural Wales. Dewi Emrys, Eluned Phillips and Caradoc Evans offer different lives, forms and viewpoints. Explore a writer through their own work and reliable biography before following the associated places: fiction should not be treated as a literal description of a community.
Challenging the familiar
Caradoc Evans grew up at Rhydlewis after his family moved from Carmarthenshire, where he was born. His collection My People caused controversy when it appeared in 1915. Later connections with Aberystwyth and New Cross sit alongside those of his wife, the novelist who wrote as Oliver Sandys. Islwyn Ffowc Elis combined university work at Lampeter with a Welsh-language literary career.
Other versions of Aberystwyth
Malcolm Pryce transforms the town into a playful detective setting, while Niall Griffiths explores tougher experiences of rural Wales. Their fiction offers contrasting perspectives on familiar places.
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Sources and visitor information: Dictionary of Welsh Biography: Caradoc Evans