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Dai Smith (academic) David Burton "Dai" Smith CBE FLSW (born 1945) is a Welsh academic, cultural historian, author, and former BBC programme editor and broadcaster. He was chair of the Arts Council of Wales between 2007 and 2016. Smith was born in the Rhondda. He was educated at Porth County and Barry Grammar School, before studying ...
8 de abr. de 2023 · Dai Smith and the Fiction of Autobiography. In an in-depth interview which delves into his lengthy career, Dai Smith talks to Daryl Leeworthy about politics, fiction and the privilege of writing. For more than fifty years, Dai Smith has been a major figure in the republic of letters.
8 de jul. de 2015 · In Gary Raymond's in-depth interview with one of Wales' preeminent intellectual voices of the last forty years, historian, novelist and chair of Arts Council Wales, Dai Smith, the two discuss the role of intellectualism in Welsh society.
24 de nov. de 2023 · Paperback, £12. Dai Smith. A presenter of television documentaries since the 1980s, head of broadcast at BBC Wales in the 1990s, chair of the Arts Council of Wales (“unprecedentedly reappointed three times”), author and editor of significant works, Dai Smith has been at the heart of his homeland’s cultural life for more than ...
26 de feb. de 2009 · Dai Smith's biography terminates at this moment. He examines the complex making of this trinity. Williams thereby came from relative anonymity to a distinctive status as an iconic intellectual of the left albeit one whose complexities were frequently simplified by admirers.
- David Howell
- 2009
10 de mar. de 2020 · Author of the Month. Dai Smith. March 10, 2020. “In probing the meaning of Welsh lives in the twentieth century, Dai Smith’s novels offer sophisticated meditations on history and community, the past and the present…” Agenda. We asked Dai to tell us a little about his latest book The Crossing, and what inspires him to write …
In this beautifully written memoir Dai Smith engages and entertains with a personal life and times with the characteristic verve of a writer who has illuminated the modern history of the people...
