Angharad Price

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

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
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