{{short description|Welsh academic and novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = <!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> | name = Angharad Price | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Novelist | title = | education = | alma_mater = Jesus College, Oxford | discipline = | sub_discipline = | workplaces = Bangor University }}
'''Angharad Price''' FLSW is a Welsh academic and novelist. She is a recipient of the Glyndŵr Award.
==Biography== Price was born in Bethel, Gwynedd, Wales,<ref name=Bangor/> the daughter of the Welsh historian {{ill|Emyr Price|cy}}.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/eisteddfod2002/maes/medal.shtml|title=Eisteddfod 2002 – Medal i Angharad|publisher=BBC |language=Welsh|quote=Mae'n ferch i'r hanesydd a'r newyddiadurwr Emyr Price. [''She is the daughter of the historian and journalist Emyr Price''.]|accessdate=24 March 2009}}</ref> She graduated with a BA and DPhil in Modern Languages from Jesus College, Oxford.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg/newyddion/darlithwyr_newydd.php.en|title=New staff for Bangor's School of Welsh |publisher=Bangor University|accessdate=24 March 2009}}</ref> She teaches at Bangor University, where she was made Professor of Welsh in 2014,<ref name="Research"/> and works on Welsh prose of the modern era.<ref name=Bangor>{{cite news|url=https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/sacl/angharad-price-008614/en|title=Dr Angharad Price BA DPhil|publisher=Bangor University|accessdate=24 March 2009}}</ref> She currently lives in Caernarfon.
Price's first novel, ''Tania’r Tacsi'', was published in 1999. Her second novel, ''O! Tyn y Gorchudd!'', won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2002 and was named Welsh Language Book of the Year by the Welsh Arts Council at the Hay Festival in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/2940110.stm|title=Hay winner's search for identity|date=27 May 2003|work=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Prose winner inspired by her family |url= |work=Western Mail |date=8 August 2002 |via=}}</ref><ref name=Bangor/><ref>{{cite book|last= Barnes|first=David|title=The Companion Guide to Wales |publisher=Companion Guides|year=2005|page=250|isbn=978-1-900639-43-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Np_H_j3hXUEC&dq=%22Angharad+Price%22&pg=PA250}}</ref> An English translation of the novel, called ''The Life of Rebecca Jones'', was also published in 2010.<ref name=Bangor/> Her third novel, ''Caersaint'', was published in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/03/11/caernarfon-the-star-of-new-urban-novel-caersaint-88817-26006103/|title=Caernarfon the star of new urban novel Caersaint|work=Caernarfon Herald|date=11 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033956/http://www.caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/03/11/caernarfon-the-star-of-new-urban-novel-caersaint-88817-26006103/|archive-date=23 July 2011}}</ref>
In 2014, Price received the Glyndŵr Award at the Machynlleth Festival.<ref>{{cite web |title=Festival |url=http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363 |publisher=MOMA Wales |access-date=9 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223111037/http://www.momawales.org.uk/?page_id=1363 |archive-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2015, Price was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Angharad Price |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/angharad-price/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Publications== Source:<ref name="Research">{{cite web|url=https://research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/angharad-price|title=Angharad Price|website=Bangor University Research Portal|access-date=26 September 2025}}</ref>
===Non-fiction=== *''Rhwng Gwyn a Du'' (2002) *''Chwileniwm: Llenyddiaeth a Thechnoleg'' (2002; ed.) *''Ffarwél i Freiburg'' (2013) *''Translation Studies: Special Issue Wales'' (2016; co-editor with Helena Miguélez-Carballeira and Judith Kaufmann) *''Gororion: Llên Cymru yng Nghyfandir Ewrop'' (2023)
===Novels=== *''Caersaint'' (2010) *''Nelan a Bo'' (2024)
===Drama=== *''Nansi'' (2017) *''Congrinero'' (2025)
===Other=== *''Ymbapuroli'' (2021)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.walesartsreview.org/greatest-welsh-novel-22-the-life-of-rebecca-jones-by-angharad-price-translated-by-lloyd-jones Review of the English language version of ''O Tyn y Gorchudd'']
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