Saunders Lewis

Saunders Lewis

Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis; 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. Born into a Welsh-speaking ministerial family in Greater Liverpool, Lewis was a typical product of the British public school system until he rediscovered the importance of both his heritage language and cultural roots while serving as a junior officer in the British Army during the trench warfare of the First World War. As a vocal supporter of Welsh nationalism, Lewis believed, however, that language revival, cultural nationalism and the decolonisation of Welsh-language literature, the dramatic arts, and culture needed to precede Welsh devolution or political independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saunders Lewis has received more than 143,355 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Saunders Lewis is the 5,846th most popular writer (down from 5,247th in 2019), the 5,197th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,740th in 2019) and the 589th most popular British Writer.