Kate Roberts (Writers of Wales) (Writers of Wales S.)

Kate Roberts (Writers of Wales) (Writers of Wales S.)

by Derec Llwyd Morgan (Author)

Synopsis

When the Welsh writer Kate Roberts died in 1985 at the age of 94, the Times obituary noted that 'she was felt by many to rank with Maupassant as one of the leading European short story writers'. Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and ardent political campaigner to the attention of the wider world audience that the sheer quality of her writing deserves.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
Edition: Rev Ed
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 25 Mar 1991

ISBN 10: 0708311156
ISBN 13: 9780708311158

Author Bio
Derec Llwyd Morgan is a Welsh academic who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.