Siân James (novelist)
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Siân James (born 1932) is a Welsh novelist who writes in English.
James was born near Llandysul in Carmarthenshire, and attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glamorgan. She is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She has twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, and her third novel, A Small Country, has come to be regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature.[1][2] In 2006, A Small Country was made into a Welsh-language TV series (Calon Gaeth), which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.[3]
In 1958 she married the actor, Emrys James.[4] He died in 1989.
Works
- One Afternoon (1975)
- Yesterday (1978)
- A Small Country (1979)
- Another Beginning (1979)
- Dragons and Roses (1983)
- A Dangerous Time (1984)
- Love and War (1994)
- Storm at Arberth (1994)
- Not Singing Exactly (collected short stories, 1996)
- Two Loves (1997)
- The Sky Over Wales (memoir, 1997)
- Summer Storm (1998)
- Second Chance (2000)
- Outside Paradise (short stories, 2001)
- Summer Shadows (2004)
- Return to Hendre Ddu (2009)
References
- ↑ Meic Stephens, A Book of Wales: an Anthology (JM Dent, 1987)
- ↑ Tony Curtis, Wales at War: Critical Essays on Literature and Art (Seren, 2007)
- ↑ Bafta Cymru
- ↑ Parthian Books
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