Meic Stephens

For the singer, see Meic Stevens.

Meic Stephens (born 1938) is a Welsh literary editor, journalist, translator and poet.

Stephens was born in 1938 in the village of Treforest, near Pontypridd, in Glamorgan. He studied at Aberystwyth University and Bangor University, and at the University of Rennes in Brittany.

From 1962 to 1966 he taught French at Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire.

In Merthyr Tydfil he established the Triskel Press and in 1965 he began the periodical, Poetry Wales.

He learnt Welsh as an adult, and became a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg and of Plaid Cymru.

From 1967 until 1990 Stephens was literature director of the Welsh Arts Council. Before retiring he was professor of Welsh Writing in English at the University of Glamorgan. He was also a visiting professor in the English department of Brigham Young University, Utah, US. He has written many articles about literature in Wales for the newspaper, the Western Mail, and obituaries of eminent Welsh people for The Independent newspaper.

He is the father of radio presenter Huw Stephens.

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