Short-story writer and novelist, born in Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, SW Wales, UK. He became a journalist in London in 1906, and published his first collection of short stories, My People in 1915. His stories were bitter satires of the Welsh people, depicting them as hypocrites, greedy, and lustful. His play Taffy (1923) added to his self-defined reputation as the best-hated man in Wales. He returned to Wales in 1940 and changed his style, writing more positively about the Welsh, and leaving later critics with mixed views about his role in Anglo-Welsh literature.
David Caradoc Evans (December 31, 1878 - January 11, 1945), was a Welsh story writer, novelist and playwright.
Evans was brought up in a Welsh-speaking community in Rhydlewis, Cardiganshire, and although he learned English at school and always wrote in English his work is influenced by Welsh syntax and vocabulary in a similar way to the way Lewis Grassic Gibbon's work in Scotland (written in roughly the same period) was influenced by Scots.
His first (and possibly most important) work of fiction was a series of short stories called My People, published in 1915.
The work was savagely attacked by Welsh critics — he was known for a while in the Welsh press as "the best hated man in Wales"—but can now be seen as perhaps the first genuinely modern work of Anglo-Welsh literature.
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