The Wales Arts Review Shorts are a new series of videos exploring major figures and significant moments in Welsh cultural life. Ranging from John Cale to National Theatre Wales, our aim is to give you an insight into the deep and rich creative people that have shaped our nation. For the full catalogue in the Wales Arts Review Shorts, follow the link here.
Emyr Owen Humphreys, (15 April 1919 – 30 September 2020) was a Welsh novelist, poet, and author. His career spanned from the 1940s until his retirement in 2009. He published in both English and Welsh. Humphreys’s best known novel is A Toy Epic (1958).
The story is a coming-of-age story of three boys, and an important war novel, however it is also a coming-of-age story of Wales itself. He took a different viewpoint in Outside the House of Baal (1965), and wrote the novel from a perspective of old age.
Novelist and literary historian Gary Raymond discusses Humphreys’ life and work.
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