ABOUT DANIEL OWEN
Considered the most important nineteenth-century Welsh novelist, Owen famously penned an 1885 Welsh-language work titled Rhys Lewis. His other well-known novels include Enoc Huws and Gwen Tomos.
Before publishing his debut novel, Y Dreflan, in 1881, Owen penned a number of poems under the pen name "Glaslwyn."
He trained to become a Methodist minister but abandoned this career goal to work as a tailor and writer.
He grew up in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, as the son of coal miner Robert Owen . Tragically, his father, as well as his brothers Robert Jr. and James, died in a late 1830s mining disaster.
He translated American writer Timothy Shay Arthur 's most famous work, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, into the Welsh language.
