Christopher Meredith FLSW was born on 1954 and is a poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator from Tredegar, Wales.
10 Facts About Christopher Meredith
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Christopher Meredith's father, Emrys, from Tredegar, was a steelworker and former collier who had served as a Royal Marine Commando during WW2.
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Christopher Meredith's mother Joyce, from Troedrhiwgwair, was a former maid and factory worker and later a home help.
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Christopher Meredith was educated at Tredegar Comprehensive school and studied philosophy and English at Aberystwyth University where he was taught by Jeremy Hooker and Ned Thomas.
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Christopher Meredith taught English at the comprehensive school in Brecon from the end of the 70s to the early 90s, during which time he began publishing poetry, articles, fiction and reviews in English.
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Christopher Meredith left higher education in 2013 and is an emeritus professor.
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Christopher Meredith has two sons and lives with his wife in Brecon.
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Christopher Meredith was brought up in a non-Welsh speaking home in a largely linguistically Anglicised part of the country and has had no formal education in Welsh at all.
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Christopher Meredith has published a short book for children in Welsh, which has since appeared in an English version, and one of his short stories, 'Progress' from Brief Lives, has appeared in his own Welsh version titled 'Cam Ymlaen' in the magazine O'r Pedwar Gwynt.
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Christopher Meredith was among those who urged the reprint of Edwards's 1927 masterpiece Rhapsody in the Library of Wales series in 2007, for which he wrote the introduction and which he edited, adding three previously uncollected stories by Edwards.