Category talk:Welsh fantasy novels

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Welsh fantasy (and Wales setting)[edit]

cross-reference: Category:Novels set in Wales#Wales setting (and Welsh fantasy)

What English-language fantasy is Welsh?

USAmerican Evangeline Walton's four novels that are retellings of the four branches of Mabinogion? USAmerican Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series that is set in remotely fictionalized Wales and derives many elements from Welsh mythology? The Tir na n-Og Award-winning novels by English-born Susan Cooper and Jenny Nimmo, which are set in modern Wales and also rooted in Brythonic mythology, if not Welsh(?).

For more about these four examples see Category:Novels set in Wales#Wales setting (and Welsh fantasy), where I use the same works to focus on the more and less fictionalized versions of Wales, but describe also the roots in Welsh mythology. See also our articles on the authors and their books of course. --P64 (talk) 17:56, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Now in this category[edit]

While researching my enquiry about Welsh fantasy and Wales setting (above), I noticed that the five current members of this category are the only four winners of the Tir na n-Og Award, English-language category, and The Owl Service which preceded the inauguration of that award.

Kevin Crossley-Holland, the most recent of the Awarded authors, was born and raised in Buckinghamshire, now lives in Norfolk.

Alan Garner of The Owl Service was born and raised in Cheshire.

Susan Cooper who won the inaugural TnnO Award and the third one, was born and raised in Buckinghamshire, with some holidays in Wales where here grandmother lived and her parents moved when she was 21. (Four volumes in The Dark is Rising series --all except The D is R-- are set in coastal villages of Cornwall (two) and Wales (two).) She lives in greater Boston since marriage to an American in 1963.

Jenny Nimmo was born in Berkshire, raised and schooled in Surrey and Kent, worked in London, married "the Welsh artist David Wynn Millward" in 1974, moved back and forth until settling 1980 in Wales --where her husband inherited property, unless that property is over the border in Hertfordshire.

In the lead sentences of their biographies we now label these four authors English, English, English-born American, and British. (Depending on what I learn here I might propose some changes on their talk pages, as WP:UKNATIONALS requests.) --P64 (talk) 18:24, 1 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]