[3] As an academic he taught at Cairo, Alexandria where he first became Professor of English Literature, Benghazi, and Istanbul.
On his retirement in 1969 he returned to Wales and concentrated on writing, producing a series of novels, four travel books (including one in Welsh), and numerous other works.
[4] His friend John Ormond, produced his well-regarded 1972 and 1974 series on Welsh history, The Land Remembers, for the BBC, which was accompanied by his book of the same title.
His diaries of family life in Mynydd Bach were published as Summer Journal 1951.
Along with the innumerable translations, poems, articles and reviews, Gwyn Williams published widely, as the sample bibliography below can attest to.