Christopher Meredith FLSW (born 1954) is a poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator from Tredegar, Wales.
Christopher Meredith was educated at Tredegar Comprehensive school and studied philosophy and English at Aberystwyth University where he was taught by Jeremy Hooker and Ned Thomas.
This subject, established in the university by the poet Tony Curtis with Rob Middlehurst, included among its teachers Sheenagh Pugh, Catherine Merriman, Matthew Francis, Philip Gross, Desmond Barry, Helen Dunmore, Gillian Clarke and others.
Utterly different from the first, this is set in the 12th century, with a poet narrator, the Griffri of the title, and deals vividly and intensely with the bloody history of the period.
The body of his work in poetry and fiction is marked by formal versatility, a wide range of subject matter and milieu, and an underlying coherence of theme and imagination.
[citation needed][4] He has given readings and talks and taken part in workshops and seminars all over Britain, in Ireland, Brittany, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, Israel/Palestine, Egypt and the USA.
Meredith was brought up in a non-Welsh speaking home in a largely linguistically Anglicised part of the country and has had no formal education in Welsh at all.
His interest in the language started in his early teens, but he began learning it in earnest with friends and from books while a student.
In the 2010s he was commissioned to compose monumental wall inscriptions in Welsh and English for y Gaer, the museum, art gallery and library complex in Brecon, which opened in 2019.