Angharad Price

Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales,^[1] the daughter of the Welsh historian Emyr Price [cy].^[2] She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.^[3] She teaches at Bangor University, where she was made Professor of Welsh in 2014,^[4] and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.^[1] 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.^[5][6][1][7] An English translation of the novel, called The Life of Rebecca Jones, was also published in 2010.^[1] Her third novel, Caersaint, was published in 2010.^[8]

In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.^[9]

In 2015, Price was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[10]

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