Author: ISLWYN, ALED
Title: Ceri
Description: Gwasg U Dref Wen. 1979. Paperback. Paperback in good condition. Owners name on first page. The book is written in Welsh. 1979 edition. Aled Islwyn was born at Port Talbot in 1953, but grew up in several places across Wales. He graduated in Welsh at St. David's College, Lampeter. He currently works as Press Officer with S4C, the Welsh-language television channel. Although he has published one volume of verse, Dyddiau Gerwyn ('The Days of Gerwyn') (1977), his main contribution to contemporary Welsh literature has been as a novelist. His first two novels, Lleuwen (1977) and Ceri (1979), in their focus on central female protagonists, anticipate some of the concerns of his third novel, Sarah Arall ('Another Sarah'), a modern rewriting of the story of the nineteenth-century fasting-girl, Sarah Jacob, which won Aled Islwyn the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod in 1982. Cadw1r Chwedlau'n Fyw ('Keeping the Legends Alive') charts the peaks and troughs in Welsh nationalist feeling and its relation to society during the decade between 1969 and 1979, whereas Pedolau Dros y Crud ('Horseshoes over the Cradle') (1984) engages subtly with the social and personal ramifications of homosexuality, as well as the casualties of unemployment. Os Marw Hon ('If She be Dead') (1990), in its semi-mythological subject-matter, represents a departure from Aled Islwyn's usual engagement with the here-and-now of Welsh society and its mores, to which he nevertheless returns in his most recent novel, Llosgi Gwern ('The Burning of Gwern') (1996). Aled Islwyn's novels manifest a profound concern with the relation of individual to society, and broach the psychological aspects of identity and sexuality with an intensity and lyricism perhaps unique in Welsh-language writing. He has continuously experimented with his prose style, making extensive use of innovative narrative techniques and an idiosyncratic use of imagery. Book appears to be out of print. Used: Acceptable.

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