Angharad Price
{{short description|Welsh academic and novelist}}
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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, the daughter of the Welsh historian {{ill|Emyr Price|cy}}.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/eisteddfod2002/maes/medal.shtml|title=Eisteddfod 2002 – Medal i Angharad|publisher=BBC |language=Welsh|quote=Mae'n ferch i'r hanesydd a'r newyddiadurwr Emyr Price. [She is the daughter of the historian and journalist Emyr Price.]|accessdate=24 March 2009}} She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.{{cite news|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg/newyddion/darlithwyr_newydd.php.en|title=New staff for Bangor's School of Welsh |publisher=Bangor University|accessdate=24 March 2009}} She teaches at Bangor University and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.{{cite news|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg/staff/angharad.php.en|title=Dr Angharad Price BA DPhil|publisher=Bangor University|accessdate=24 March 2009}} 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.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/2940110.stm|title=Hay winner's search for identity|date=27 May 2003|work=news.bbc.co.uk}}{{cite news |title=Prose winner inspired by her family |url= |work=Western Mail |date=8 August 2002 |via=}}{{cite book|last= Barnes|first=David|title=The Companion Guide to Wales |publisher=Companion Guides|year=2005|page=250|isbn=978-1-900639-43-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Np_H_j3hXUEC&dq=%22Angharad+Price%22&pg=PA250}} An English translation of the novel, called The Life of Rebecca Jones, was also published in 2010. Her third novel, Caersaint, was published in 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/03/11/caernarfon-the-star-of-new-urban-novel-caersaint-88817-26006103/|title=Caernarfon the star of new urban novel Caersaint|work=Caernarfon Herald|date=11 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033956/http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/03/11/caernarfon-the-star-of-new-urban-novel-caersaint-88817-26006103/|archive-date=23 July 2011}}
In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.{{cite web |title=Festival |url=http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363 |publisher=MOMA Wales |access-date=9 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223111037/http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363 |archive-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}
In 2015, Price was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Angharad Price |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/angharad-price/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.walesartsreview.org/greatest-welsh-novel-22-the-life-of-rebecca-jones-by-angharad-price-translated-by-lloyd-jones Review of the English language version of O Tyn y Gorchudd]
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Category:20th-century Welsh novelists
Category:21st-century Welsh novelists
Category:20th-century Welsh women writers
Category:21st-century Welsh women writers
Category:21st-century Welsh writers
Category:Welsh-language novelists
Category:Welsh women novelists
Category:People from Llanddeiniolen
Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
Category:Academics of Bangor University
Category:Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
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