Derec Llwyd Morgan

DEREC LLWYD MORGAN is a literary historian and critic who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published five slim volumes of poetry which include a version of Homer's Iliad for children, and many works on the history of religious ideas and early-modern and modern Welsh literature. His Y Brenhinbren, a splendid biography of Sir Thomas Parry, was published by Gomer in 2013. He has been, amongst other things, President of the Court of the National Eisteddfod and a member of the now-defunct Advisory Council of the BBC and the Independent Television Commission. He was the editor of Emlyn Hooson: Essays & Reminiscences (Gomer, 2014)