Gwyn Jones CBE (24 May 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history.
He attended Tredegar county school and studied at University College, Cardiff as an undergraduate and a postgraduate.
[2][3][4][1] In 1939 Jones registered as a conscientious objector to military service, which temporarily caused him to lose his job.
His novels and story collections include Richard Savage (1935), Times Like These (1936), The Nine Days' Wonder (1937) and Garland of Bays (1938), The Buttercup Field (1945), The Flowers beneath the Scythe (1952), Shepherd's Hey (1953) and The Walk Home (1962).
[6] He also published three sets of lectures on Anglo-Welsh literature: The First Forty Years (1957), Being and Belonging (1977), and Babel and the Dragon's Tongue (1981).