Sunday, May 27, 2018
4 p.m.
Reading Room
About the Author:
Originally from Cincinnati, he now lives in Wales and has held academic posts at Cardiff and more recently Bangor University, where he is currently (2010) a Reader in the School of Welsh. He was a founding member of the pressure group Cymuned and is former editor of the Welsh Academi’s literary periodical Taliesin.
His first monograph. Soffestri’r Saeson (University of Wales Press, 2000), a study of the use of prophecy as political propaganda in the Tudor age, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2001. Llwch Cenhedloedd, (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2003), which writes the history of the American Civil War based on Welsh-language evidence (mainly letters and other material written and published in Welsh on both sides of the Atlantic), won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2004. He has also published a book on the prominent Welsh American anti-slavery campaigner, Robert Everett: I Ddeffro Ysbryd y Wlad (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2007), again drawing on a wealth of Welsh-language evidence mainly unused by historians. His interest in the Welsh-language history of his native United States has also led to the publication of an English-language volume Welsh Writing from the American Civil War: Sons of Arthur, Children of Lincoln (University of Wales Press, 2007). Most recently, he published a children’s book, Ceffylau’r Cymylau (Gwasg Gomer, 2010) and won the Prose Medal at the 2010 National Eisteddfod for his novel Gwenddydd (Gwasg Gwynedd, 2010).
Hunter is a member of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain, with the bardic name ‘Gerallt Glan Ohio’.