Herbert Williams

Born in Trefechan, Aberystwyth in 1932, Herbert Williams is one of Wales’s most celebrated and distinguished writers. In this engaging book—part biography, part critical reader—Phil Carradice leads readers on an extended tour of Williams’s prolific career, touching on Williams’s motivations for writing and assessing the literary significance of his numerous works of biography, fiction, poetry, and history. What results is not just the tale of one man’s struggle to express his emotions through his writing but also a revealing inquiry into how and why writers write.

“"One of Wales's most humane and accessible writers is well presented by this appreciative and well-crafted memoir."Robert Nisbet”

"In this succinct and beautifully written memoir, Phil Carradice does something quite original. He combines biography with literary comment and criticism, and identifies the essence of Herbert Williams's writing--its lucid power--as well as identifying the stages of his life."--John Idris Jones

Phil Carradice is a writer and broadcaster and is the author of many books on Welsh history. He is presenter of the BBC radio Wales history programme The Past Master.

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Herbert Williams is one of Wales' most celebrated and distinguished writers. A man of many talents, he is a poet, novelist, short story writer and historian. This book provides a critical survey of his life and writing. It is a combination of biography and critical appraisal and the chapters dovetail together to provide a continuous narrative combined with an appreciation of the man's work.It includes the following areas or elements:-- Biographical information, taking Herbert from his beginnings in Aberystwyth to the present day. It follows the man from his school days to early work as a journalist, from his time as a Producer at the BBC to his achievements as a poet and prose writer.- Significant influences on his life - and, therefore, on his writing. These include his early days in a working-class house dominated by books with a father who actively encouraged him to read. These influences also include the writers who inspired him and his early attempts at finding his own voice.- Herbert's time in Bronllys Hospital, as a fifteen year old TB patient and the death of a younger brother from TB were pivotal moments in his life. They have influenced, in one way or another, almost everything he has written or spoken about since those traumatic days. The book examines in some detail the effect of these experiences on his development as a writer and as a man.- An analysis of the many elements of Herbert's creative life. He has always been an eclectic writer, turning his hand to biography and short stories as easily as he does to poetry.- What inspires and drives Herbert Williams to keep writing and publishing, in such a wide sphere. What makes him want to communicate his ideas and emotions, often very painful ones at that?

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