Emyr Humphreys was born at Trelawnyd in Flintshire. During his long bilingual writing career, he has published over twenty novels, which include such classics as A Toy Epic(1958), Outside the House of Baal(1965), and The Land of the Living, an epic sequence of seven novels. He has also written plays for stage and television, short stories, The Taliesin Tradition(a cultural history of Wales), and published his Collected Poemsin 1999. Among many honours, he has been awarded The Somerset Maugham Prize, The Hawthornden Prize, and the Welsh Book of the Year Award.
