Leslie Norris

Description

Poet, short-story writer and editor Leslie Norris (1921 - 2006) was born in Merthyr Tydfil. He worked as a local government clerk, teacher and a college lecturer, before combining full-time writing with residencies at academic institutions. He was most closely affliliated with Brigham Young University in Utah, where he was Humanities Professor of Creative Writing. Norris was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. by the University of Glamorgan. He started writing in the 1940s, but came to prominence as a frequent contributor to Poetry Wales during the late 1960s. Norris published many volumes of poetry including two for children, two short story collections, a monograph on Glyn Jones and numerous essays and reviews. He also edited several works and collaborated on poetry translations . Norris was certainly one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period. Information taken from Meic Stephens' New Companion to the Literature of Wales (University of Wales Press, 1998)

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