Caradoc Evans

Born David Caradoc Evans in Carmarthenshire in 1878, he grew up in west Wales and later became a story writer, novelist, and playwright. He wrote in English, drawing heavily on the rhythms, speech patterns, and religious life of Welsh rural communities.

Evans is most closely associated with My People (1915), the story collection that made his name and caused a storm. Its fierce satire of chapel culture, hypocrisy, and hardship outraged many readers in Wales, but it also established him as a major and deeply original voice in Anglo-Welsh writing.

He went on to publish more fiction and plays, and his reputation has endured because of both his literary force and the arguments his work provoked. Even now, he is remembered as a writer who refused to soften his view of the world he came from.