Glyn Jones (Welsh writer)
Glyn Jones was a Welsh novelist, poet and literary historian, and an important figure in AngloWelsh literature. He served as both Chairman and President of the Welsh Academys Englishlanguage section. In his study, The Dragon Has Two Tongues , he discusses ways in which the period between the World Wars affected his generation of Welsh authors.
Glyn Jones was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1905 into a Welsh speaking household, his father was a post office clerk and his mother a teacher. Despite Welsh being his family language, as with all mainstream education in Wales during the first half of the twentieth century, he was educated in English. Jones obtained a place at Cyfarthfa Castle Grammar School, and by the time he left secondary education he had all but lost his ability to speak Welsh fluently. In his later life, Jones retaught himself the Welsh language, though his literary works were always in English. After leaving Cyfarthfa Grammar, he gained a place at St Pauls College in Cheltenham.
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