In April 2019, Emyr Humphreys will celebrate his hundredth birthday. He is the pre-eminent novelist of anglophone Wales, a major cultural figure who has operated on several different fronts, and a principled ethical activist. He has enjoyed a career that began when he was talent-spotted and mentored by Graham Greene, continued during the fifties through a creative friendship with Saunders Lewis and pioneering radio and television productions featuring the young Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole and Sian Phillips, diversified further from the early eighties onwards with his seminal contributions of plays and documentaries for the new Welsh-language channel S4C, and culminated with his remarkable late achievements in poetry and in fiction. His has therefore been a unique achievement, one without parallel in the long history of Welsh culture.

This one-day symposium (followed by an evening lecture) assesses and celebrates the literary and cultural legacy of Humphreys.

Symposium starts 10.00 am (registration from 9.30am)

Speakers:

Michelle Deininger, Tristan Hughes, Elinor Shepley, M. Wynn Thomas, Andy Webb, Daniel G. Williams.