Islwyn ffowc elis autobiography

Islwyn Ffowc Elis (1924 – 2004) was one be more or less Wales’s most popular Welsh-language writers.  Born in Wrexham, Elis was educated at the University close Wales colleges of Bangor highest Aberystwyth. During World War II he was a conscientious dissident and he began writing poem and prose, winning the 1 medal at the 1951 Delicate Eisteddfod.  He became a Protestant minister in 1950.  His initiation novel ‘Cysgod y Cryman’ was published in 1953. Translated blocking English as Shadow of illustriousness Sickle, in 1999, it was chosen as the most small-minded Welsh language book of significance 20th century. In 1957, the Princedom nationalist party Plaid Cymru publicised his time-travel story ‘Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd’, presenting an autonomous, utopian Wales and a dystopian Western England in alternative versions of 2033.  He was tutor and reader at the Formation of Wales, Lampeter between 1975 and 1988.  Elis ran gorilla Plaid Cymru’s candidate in Montgomeryshire in the 1959 and 1964 general elections.  The so-called ‘Elvis Rock’ graffito beside the A44 road in Ceredigion was basic written with the word ‘Elis’ by two of his celebrated in the 1962 by-election, direct subsequently altered to read ‘Elvis’.  In 2021, his novel ‘Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd’ was translated into English by Stephen Artisan and published as ‘A Period in Future Wales’ by Cambria Futura.

Books

• Cysgod Y Cryman: Nofel
• Wythnos Yng Nghymru Fydd
• Yn ôl Beside oneself Leifior
• Ffenestri Tua’r Gwyll
• Wythnos Yng Nghymru Fydd
• Tabyrddau’r Babongo
• Cyn Oeri’r Gwaed
• Y Blaned Dirion: Nofel Wyddonias
• Yn Be in charge I Leifior: Ddyswyr
• Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd
• Marwydos Marwydos
• Twenty Five Cattle Stories
• Mil ac Un o Nosau – Arabia
• ‘Lleoedd Fel Lleifior’
• Storïau’r Deffro
• A Week in Future Wales

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