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Christopher Meredith

Christopher Meredith was born in Tredegar in 1954. He was educated in Aberystwyth and Swansea and has been a steelworker and a schoolteacher. Since 1993 he has taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan where he leads undergraduate courses in the subject. He received an Eric Gregory Award for poetry from the Society of Authors in 1984 and the Welsh Arts Council Young Writer Prize for his first collection of poems, This, in 1985. His first novel, Shifts, won the Welsh Arts Council Fiction prize in 1989, and his second, the historical novel Griffri, was shortlisted for the Book of the Year Award in 1991. A second collection of poems, Snaring Heaven, appeared in 1990. His third novel, Sidereal Time, was published in 1998 and a book for children in Welsh, Nadolig Bob Dydd, in 2000. Meredith has published widely in magazines and journals including Planet, for which he wrote a column, TLS, New Statesman, and Poetry Wales. In 2001 he was co-editor with Tony Curtis of a special Welsh number of The Literary Review (USA). He has given readings widely in Britain, Europe and the US. He lives in Brecon with his wife and two sons.

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