Daniel Owen

His father, Robert Owen, was a coal miner, while his mother belonged to the family of Thomas Edwards, poet and writer.

[3] Owen began writing poetry under the pseudonym Glaslwyn, entering his work into local eisteddfodau and managed to publish some pieces.

Its modest success led Edwards to encourage Owen to embark on a first novel, Y Dreflan, which described a fictionalized version of Mold.

[3] Although Y Dreflan was popular in its time, Owen's reputation rests mainly on three later novels, particularly Rhys Lewis and its sequel Enoc Huws.

He is credited with starting a tradition of novel-writing in Welsh that influenced later fiction writers such as Kate Roberts and T. Rowland Hughes.