Books By Nigel Jenkins - Author

Nigel Jenkins (1949-2014) was one of Wales's leading writers: a poet and essayist, he was also a political activist, teacher, mentor, broadcaster, playwright, translator, psychogeographer and critic. Brought up on a farm on the Gower peninsula, he went on to study literature and film at Essex University and work as a journalist in England after a brief stint as a circus roustabout in America. On his return to Wales in 1976 he became a full-time writer and lecturer in Creative Writing. He was a founder member, and later chairman, of the Welsh Union of Writers. He won the Wales Book of the Year prize for his travel book Gwalia in Khasia - the story of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists Mission to the Khasi Hills in north-east India. In 2001, he published a selection of his essays and articles as Footsore on the Frontier. He was a co editor of the Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, and a noted literary translator from Welsh. He was director of Swansea University's Masters programme in Creative Writing and al