The Writers of Wales Database

HUWS, DANIEL

Daniel was born in London. He was raised there and in Anglesey, attending a Welsh county school in Llangefni and later graduated from Cambridge University. He worked at the Department of Manuscripts and Records at the National Library of Wales between 1961 and 1992. Daniel writes poetry and prose, having contributed to various books and magazines, in Welsh and English, discussing mainly manuscripts and traditional music. Daniel is a Member of The Welsh Academy.

Selected Publications:
Noth (Secker, 1972)
The Quarry (Faber, 1999)
Welsh Medieval Manuscripts (University of Wales Press, 2000)
Memories of Ted Hughes 1952-1963 (Five Leaves, 2010)

Contributed to:
Edrica Huws Patchworks / Clytweithiau Edrica Huws (co-editor) (Manaman, 2007)


Memories of Ted Hughes 1952-1963 (Five Leaves, 2010)
As a student at Cambridge, Daniel Huws became a close friend of Ted Hughes. In this memoir he describes the young and still carefree Hughes, his Cambridge friends, his enthusiasms, his development as a poet, the arrival on the scene of Sylvia Plath and of their years in London