biography
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Evans, Caradoc
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pseudonym of David Evans
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| male
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| lived:
| (1878–1945)
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| biography:
| Short-story writer and novelist, born in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, SW Wales, UK. He became a journalist in London in 1906, and published his first collection of short stories, My People in 1915. His stories were bitter satires of the Welsh people, depicting them as hypocrites, greedy, and lustful. His play Taffy (1923) added to his self-defined reputation as ‘the best-hated man in Wales’. He returned to Wales in 1940 and changed his style, writing more positively about the Welsh, and leaving later critics with mixed views about his role in Anglo-Welsh literature. |
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