''Chwalfa'' is a

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh c ...

novel A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...

written by T. Rowland Hughes in 1946. The novel chronicles the history of the Ifans family in the imaginary quarry town of Llechfaen. However, the story is based on the real events in Bethesda,

Gwynedd Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The ci ...

, at the time of the 'Great Strike' at Penrhyn Quarry between 1900 and 1903.

Adaptions

Chwalfa has been adapted for the stage and screen. In 2016, it was produced by

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru , formerly , is the Welsh-language national theatre company of Wales, and was founded in 2003. The company is known for regularly touring a diverse range of theatre across the length and breadth Wales, including new writing, musicals, site-sp ...

. In the early 1960s, the

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produced a television adaption of the novel.

References

Welsh novels Welsh-language novels 1946 British novels Fiction set in the 1900s Novels set in Gwynedd Bethesda, Gwynedd {{Wales-stub