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Angharad Price is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.

Angharad Price
Born	1972 (age 49–50) Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales
Nationality	Welsh
Occupation	Novelist
Academic background
Alma mater	Jesus College, Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	Bangor University

Biography

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 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.[4][5][1][6] 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.[7]

In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.[8]

References

External links

• Review of the English language version of O Tyn y Gorchudd

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