BONDS OF ATTACHMENT: EMYR HUMPHREYS
AT 100
CENTENARY SYMPOSIUM AND PUBLIC
LECTURE
Saturday
13 April 2019
Symposium:
10.00-4.30 at Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP
Lecture
and Reception: 6.00-7.45 at Cinema & Co, 17
Castle St, Swansea SA1 1JF
© Bernard Mitchell
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.
This one-day symposium and
evening lecture assess and celebrate the literary and cultural legacy of
Humphreys. All welcome.
Both symposium and public
lecture are free, but please register via Eventbrite.
SYMPOSIUM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bonds-of-attachment-emyr-humphreys-at-100-a-centenary-symposium-tickets-58290106277
A
limited number of postgraduate / non-affiliated ECR travel bursaries are available from AWWE. To apply, please email treasurer@awwe.org
by 1 April.
© Bernard Mitchell
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