Nansi Richards Jones was a Welsh harpist, sometimes known as the "Queen of the Harp" or by her bardic name "Telynores Maldwyn".
Bala is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales. Formerly an urban district, Bala lies in the historic county of Merionethshire, at the north end of Bala Lake. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 1,974, 78.5% of whom spoke Welsh.
Thomas Llewelyn Jones was a Welsh language author. Over a writing career of more than 50 years, he became one of the most prolific and popular authors of children's books in Welsh. He wrote, and was generally known, as T. Llew Jones.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1992 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1991 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1990 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1988 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1968 to Wales and its people.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1966 to Wales and its people.
Moelona was the pen-name of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mary Jones, a Welsh novelist and translator who wrote novels for children and other works in Welsh.
William Ambrose, whose bardic name was Emrys, was a 19th-century Welsh-language poet and preacher.
Shân Margaretta Morgan, known professionally as Shân Cothi, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, television and radio presenter.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 to Wales and its people.
The Tir na n-Og Awards are a set of annual children's literary awards in Wales from 1976. They are presented by the Books Council of Wales to the best books published during the preceding calendar year in each of three awards categories, one English-language and two Welsh-language. Their purpose is "[to raise] the standard of children's and young people's books and to encourage the buying and reading of good books." There is no restriction to fiction or prose. Each prize is £1,000.
Norah Isaac was a Welsh author, drama producer and campaigner for Welsh-language education. She became the head of the country's first Welsh-medium school, Ysgol Gymraeg yr Urdd, in 1939.
Elena Puw Morgan was a Welsh writer. She was the first woman to win the Literary Medal at the National Eisteddfod, with the novel Y Graith in 1938. In addition to her novels for an adult audience, Morgan published Welsh-language children's books.
Alice Gray Jones was a Welsh writer and editor, known by the pseudonym "Ceridwen Peris". She was an active temperance campaigner, and a co-founder of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union.
Yws Gwynedd is a Welsh rock band from North Wales named after its lead singer Ywain Gwynedd.
Eirwen Meiriona St. John Gwynn was a Welsh nationalist, writer, teacher and physicist. Born in Liverpool, she read physics at the University College of North Wales and later earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in that field in 1942. Gwynn taught physics at Rhyl Grammar School and later worked as an assistant account at the Government Exchequer and Audit Department. She then worked as a full-time lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association and was a freelance writer who created 1,500 works on social development and science in the English and Welsh printed press. Gwynn also authored multiple books and short stories, won awards during her career, promoted the Welsh language by being a member of four committees and served as president of two societies.
Rhiannon Davies Jones was a Welsh historical novelist, lecturer and Welsh nationalist who wrote in Welsh. Educated at University College Bangor, she won two prizes for short novels, two Prose Medals at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and the crown at the 1973 Anglesey Eisteddfod. Jones published ten novels with her works covering fictional diaries, her political beliefs and responses to political events, and Welsh kings and princes.
