Angharad Price

Angharad Price
Born	1972 (age 52–53) Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Novelist
Academic background
Alma mater	Jesus College, Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	Bangor University

Angharad Price FLSW 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 [cy].[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]

In 2015, Price was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[9]

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". news.bbc.co.uk. 27 May 2003.
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 the star of new urban novel Caersaint". Caernarfon Herald. 11 March 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011.
8. "Festival". MOMA Wales. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
9. Wales, The Learned Society of. "Angharad Price". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 31 August 2023.

External links

• Review of the English language version of O Tyn y Gorchudd