WRITER

Richard Llewellyn

1906 - 1983

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Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (né Richard Herbert Vivian Lloyd; 8 December 1906, London – 30 November 1983, Dublin), known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn ( loo-EL-in, Welsh: [ɬəˈwɛlɪn]), was a British novelist of a Welsh background, who is best remembered for his 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, which chronicles life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Llewellyn has received more than 207,777 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Llewellyn is the 5,385th most popular writer (down from 5,072nd in 2019), the 4,088th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,977th in 2019) and the 455th most popular British Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 46.31

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn, Llewellyn
**This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith.** The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the **mid nineteenth century**. The narrative traces the dignity and fortitude of hard working Welsh miners and their ambitions and hopes for their futures. The location of the story is usually considered to be in a village called Gilfach Goch in the Rhondda Valley. **The collieries are long gone but their scars are still evident, returning to the green of the book's title.**
1939
How green was my valley
Fiction, History
1939
None but the lonely heart
Fiction
1943
Up, into the singing mountain
1960
Down Where the Moon Is Small
Fiction
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Richard Llewellyn ranks 5,385 out of 7,302. Before her are Yehoshua Kenaz, Marieluise Fleißer, Jan Twardowski, Ali Smith, Jeanne Dumée, and Tommaso Grossi. After her are Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Kim Newman, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, László Németh, and Karim Rashid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Richard Llewellyn ranks 323. Before her are Plácido Galindo, Benjamin Mazar, Jean Delarge, Harry Hopman, Nils Skoglund, and Richard Rado. After her are Jorge Icaza Coronel, Henry Roth, Kang Kyeong-ae, Willibald Kreß, Gustav Schäfer, and Luis Marín. Among people deceased in 1983, Richard Llewellyn ranks 209. Before her are Buster Crabbe, Armand Lanoux, Jacqueline Logan, Sabin Carr, Claude Papi, and Constantino Urbieta Sosa. After her are Carlo Orlandi, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bronisław Kaper, Pentti Saarikoski, Georges Spénale, and Christopher George.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Llewellyn ranks 4,088 out of 8,785. Before her are Pybba of Mercia (570), Ali Smith (1962), Dan Stevens (1982), Peter Firth (1953), William Henry Smyth (1788), and Tony Jay (1933). After her are John Martyn (1948), Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), James D'Arcy (1975), Howard Stringer (1942), and Colin Hay (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Richard Llewellyn ranks 455. Before her are Benjamin Zephaniah (1958), Charles Montagu Doughty (1843), Daniel Tammet (1979), Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696), Aneirin (525), and Ali Smith (1962). After her are Kim Newman (1959), Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1674), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Olivia Manning (1908), and Mary Sidney (1561).

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