Angharad Price is a

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

Biography

Price was born in

Bethel Bethel ( he, בֵּית אֵל, translit=Bēṯ 'Ēl, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; el, Βαιθήλ; la, Bethel) was an ancient Israelite sanct ...

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, Wales, the daughter of the Welsh historian . She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford. She teaches at

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and works on Welsh prose of the modern era. 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

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Prose Medal in 2002 and was named Welsh Language Book of the Year by the Welsh Arts Council at the Hay Festival in 2003. An English translation of the novel, called ''The Life of Rebecca Jones'', was also published in 2010. Her third novel, ''Caersaint'', was published in 2010. In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.

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