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Caradog Prichard

Born

in Llwyn Onn, Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales, The United Kingdom

November 03, 1904

Died

February 25, 1980

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Poet, novelist and journalist, Caradog Prichard was a native of Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales. He worked for newspapers in Caernarfon, Llanrwst, Cardiff and in London where he spent most of his life, working for the News Chronicle and later the Daily Telegraph.

He was 23 when he first won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod which he went on to win three years in a row.

Today he is mostly remembered for his 1961 novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) which is considered to be an important contribution to Welsh language literature, and was one of the first substantial works of fiction and prose to be written in a local dialect of spoken Welsh (that of Bethesda, Gwynedd) rather than in standard or literary Welsh. The novel has been translated in ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 934 ratings · 161 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Moonlit Night 4.19 avg rating — 919 ratings — published 1961	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afal Drwg Adda 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uitgelezen *) Podium by Joost Nijsen, Michel Faber, Eva Ludemann 1.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Y Genod yn ein Bywyd liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1964 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Canu Cynnar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1937	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Llef Un yn Llefain 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“But I don’t want to be Godly. I just want to be good.”
― Caradog Prichard, One Moonlit Night

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