Gwyn Jones CBE (24 May 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history. Gwyn...
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Gwyn Jones may refer to: Gwyn Jones (author) (1907–1999), Welsh historian, translator and story writer Gwyn Jones (figure skater) (born 1939), South African...
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and former Olympic runner Gwyn Cready (born 1962), American author Gwyn Davies (rugby) (1908–1992), Welsh rugby player Gwyn Davies (1919–1995), Welsh...
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sister, though that connection was not made by the medieval author(s) of Culhwch and Olwen. Gwyn plays a prominent role in the early Arthurian tale Culhwch...
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Welsh Verse in English is a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covers both Welsh language poetry in English translation...
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pianist (born 1905) 6 December Alexander Baron, author and screenwriter (born 1917) Gwyn Jones, author (born 1907) 7 December – Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter...
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Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017) was a British photographer. He is best known internationally...
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words "Eira" (snow) and "Gwyn" (white, fair or blessed). Eirwyn George (born 1936), Welsh poet, writer and author Gwilym Eirwyn Jones [cy] (1922–1994), Welsh...
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Richard Gwyn (ca. 1537 – 15 October 1584), also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and...
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Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd), it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where...
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BBC Radio 5. He was the author of books on the sport of rugby; including several on the history of rugby in Wales. Parry-Jones was born in Pontypridd on...
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Dublin. Jones held the chair in Welsh language at Aberystwyth from 1980 until his retirement. He died on 22 November 2017. "Bobi Jones is an author of great...
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judge Uzo Iwobi, lecturer John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist, malacologist Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst John Viriamu Jones, mathematician, physicist David...
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cave]"), while Llan-vair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-goger-bwll-dysilio-gogo appears in a paper on placenames published in 1849, its author noting that "the name was generally...
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Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "Gwyn [Wynne, Jones], Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford...
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List of Canadian writers (redirect from Canadian author)
List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List...
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(Wil Ifan) (1883–1968) Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) (1895–1970) William Richard Philip George (1912–2006) John Gwyn Griffiths (1911–2004) Elis Gruffydd...
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Gwynne is an Anglified spelling of the Welsh name Gwyn which means 'white' or/and 'blessed'. Gwynne Dyer (b. 1943), male Canadian journalist G. Blakemore...
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Foreword by Douglas Gwyn", New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58930-4 Endy, Melvin B.: "The Interpretation of Quakerism. Rufus Jones and His Critics", in:...
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Greene (1904–1991) Davis Grubb (1919–1980) Richard Guest (born 1967) Aaron Gwyn (born 1972) Hubert Haddad (born 1947) Per Hallström (1866–1960) Edmond Hamilton...
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Madoc maecte" (Willem, the author of Madoc, known as "Willem the Minstrel"). Though no copies of Willem's "Madoc" survive, Gwyn Williams tells us that "In...
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elements borrowed from Mabinogion. Set in contemporary Wales, they feature Gwyn Griffiths, a boy descended from Gwydion who discovers and develops some of...
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the Wolves of the Beyond fantasy novel series by Kathryn Lasky Gwyneth "Gwyn" Berdara, a character from the A Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy series...
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correspondents included: Glyn Jones, Doris Lessing, W. Somerset Maugham, George Ewart Evans, Gareth Hughes (a first cousin), Gwyn Jones, Gwyn Thomas, Dylan Thomas...
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Mari Gwyn (Mari Gwyn’s Diary) dealing with the persecution of Catholics in Elizabeth I's reign and focusing on the Elizabethan Welsh writer Robert Gwyn. This...
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Elvet Jones (1912–1989), Wales and British Lions rugby international Gwyn Jones (rugby union) (born 1972), Wales rugby union player Ivor Jones (1901–1982)...
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Sigrid Rausing (section As author)
2018. In spring 2005, with her husband Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones, she founded the publishing house Portobello Books, and that autumn Rausing...
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until 2010, was created by David P. O'Brien of PanCanadian Petroleum and Gwyn Morgan of the Alberta Energy Company through the merger of their companies...
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Arthur Machen (redirect from Arthur Llewellyn Jones)
March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known...
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screenwriter, and author Nell Fortner (born 1959), American women's college basketball coach Nell Freudenberger (born 1975), American novelist Nell Gwyn (1650–1687)...
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