Dylan Thomas Bust - Llaugharne - Wales.
N 51° 46.131 W 004° 27.809
30U E 399017 N 5736342
Dylan Thomas bust, a sculpture in wood, placed by Llaugharne youth club in the year 2000, in Laugharne, the Carmarthenshire village where Dylan Thomas lived with his family and which inspired the fictional village of Llareggub.
Waymark Code: WMDZTJ
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/14/2012
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A memorial stone for Dylan Thomas was placed in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in 1982, at the request of Former USA President J. Carter.
"Dylan Thomas (1914-53) was born in Swansea and attended Swansea Grammar School. He spent fifteen months after leaving school as a junior reporter on the South Wales Daily Post. He moved to London in 1934 with publication of his first volume and a number of single poems. In 1937 he married Caitlin Macnamara and the following year moved to Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. During the Second World War he wrote radio scripts and took part in broadcast talks and readings for the BBC. Between 1946 and 1949 he lived in or near Oxford but returned to Wales, to the Boat House at Laugharne in May 1949. His growing reputation in the USA led to frequent lecture tours in the following years. He died in New York in November 1953 and his body was brought back for burial in the churchyard at Laugharne."
For further details see the entry on Thomas in 'The New Companion to the Literature of Wales' edited by Meic Stephens.
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