Harri Pritchard Jones

Harri Pritchard Jones

 Harri Pritchard Jones

Harri Pritchard Jones was born in the Midlands in 1933 and was brought up on Anglesey. He was educated on Anglesey and in Trinity College, Dublin. Although he worked as a doctor and a psychiatrist, his main interest was literature. He published fifteen volumes of work including novels, collections of short stories, translations and literary criticism. He also wrote a number of scripts for TV programmes. His work has been translated into seven languages, and has been read on Radio Cymru, Radio Wales, BBC Radio 3 and 4 and Radio Denmark. He has won prizes from the National Eisteddfod and the Arts Council. Between 1991 and 1996, he was the chairman of The Welsh Academy.