John Rowlands
Biography
John Rowlands was born in Trawsfynydd in 1938. He was educated at the University College of North Wales and Oxford University, where he took a Ph. D. His career has been spent in teaching, at various Welsh colleges and universities, including the University of Wales at Bangor, where he taught creative writing. He has written novels, works of criticism and works on history and genealogy. He died in 2015.
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1960 Lle Bo’r Gwenyn (novel)
1962 A Man of Sorrows by Petrus Christus (criticism)
1963 Yn Ôl I’w Teyrnasoedd (novel)
1965 Lenctid yw’ Mhechod (A Taste of Apples) (novel)
1966 Copper Mountain (history)
1968 Llawer is na’r Angylion (novel)
1969 Bydded Tywyllwch (novel)
1972 Arch ym Mhrâg (novel)
1975 T. Rowland Hughes (criticism)
1978 Tician Tician (novel)
1980 Profiles: A Visitor’s Guide to Writing in Twentieth Century Wales (with Glyn Jones) (criticism)
1986 Aber, Y Lolfa (criticism)
1987 Patrymau Diwydiant (history)
1988 John Gwilym Jones (criticism)
1988 Pwy sy’n Euog? (with Joan Lingard) (criticism)
1989 Holyhead: People, Prosperity and Poverty (history)
1989 Cnoi cil ar Lenyddiaeth (criticism)
1990 Annwyl Arholwr . . . : Myfyrion Myfyriwr Dosbarth Pump (criticism)
1990 Chwerw’n Troi’n Chwerae (criticism)
1990 Saunders y Beirniad (criticism)
1992 Sglefrio ar Eiriau: Erthyglau ar Lenyddiaeth a Bierniadaeth (criticism)
1992 Cardiganshire Marriages, pre-1813, Pennarth Hundred (with Sheila Rowlands – genealogy)
1992 Ysgrifau ar y Nofel (criticism)
1992 Cwmavon: Then and Now (with A. Leslie Evans) (history)
1993 A Short Account of St. Mary’s Parish Church, Llanfair-yn-Neubwll (history)
1993 Welsh Family History: A Guide to Research (genealogy)
1996 The Surnames of Wales For Family Historians and Others (with Sheila Rowlands – genealogy)
1997 Nodiadau ar Un nos ola Leuad (Caradog Prichard) (criticism)
1999 Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry (with Sheila Rowlands – genealogy)
1999 Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi: Dathliad, 1949-1999 (with Gladys Pritchard and Margaret Chantrell – school history)
2000 Y sêr yn eu graddau: golwg ar ffurfafen y nofel Gymraeg ddiweddar (criticism)