List of Cornish writers
Henry Jenner Kitty Lee Jenner Caroline Fox [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] This is a list of writers in English and Cornish , who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (Cornish : Rol a skriforyon Kernewek ). Not all of them are native Cornish people .
Some Cornish writers have reached a high level of prominence, e.g. William Golding , who won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1983), D. M. Thomas who won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q").
Some of the "incomers" have written extensively about Cornwall and the Cornish, e.g. Daphne du Maurier , who went as far as joining Mebyon Kernow .
Historians and scholars
See List of Cornish historians
Novelists
Daphne du Maurier Arthur Quiller-Couch
Denys Val Baker , novelist and writerA. P. Bateman , thriller writer and bestselling author[ 4] [citation needed Wilfred Bennetto , writer of the first full-length novel in CornishJanie Bolitho, crime writer[ 5]
W. J. Burley , Wycliffe seriesJack Clemo , poetMyrna Combellack , novelist and scholarMichael J Darracott , writer, lived in Newlyn [ 6] Daphne du Maurier [ 7] Martin Fido . crime writerPatrick Gale Robert Goddard William Golding , Nobel laureate[ 8] Winston Graham , Poldark series[ 9] Tim Heald [ 10] Joseph Hocking , author and preacherSilas Hocking , author and preacher[ 11] Ann Kelley Alan M. Kent , poet, novelist and scholarJohn le Carré [ 12] Charles Lee , (1870–1956)[ 13] Katharine Lee (Kitty Lee Jenner, 1854–1936)Herman Cyril McNeile, "Sapper" , novelistJessica Mann , crime writer[ 14] Charlotte Mary Matheson , novelistWyl Menmuir , novelist[ 15] Gertrude Parsons , Roman Catholic novelistMark Guy Pearse , author and preacherSusan Penhaligon Rosamunde Pilcher Arthur Quiller-Couch , aka "Q", novelist and scholarAlastair Reynolds , lived in Cornwall as childJean Rhys , novelist, lived at Bude for a periodAngie Sage , author and illustrator[ 16] Howard Spring , lived in Falmouth Sharon Tregenza Derek Tangye Nigel Tangye D. M. Thomas E. V. Thompson Enys Tregarthen , writer and folkloristJohn Coulson Tregarthen , novelist and naturalistCraig Weatherhill , archaeologist, Cornish historian, writerMary Wesley Colin Wilson Leo Walmsley , writer and novelist[ 17]
Poets
Brother Anthony , poet and translator from KoreanJohn Barber [citation needed Wilfred Bennetto , poet and novelist writing in Cornish[ 18] John Betjeman , Poet Laureate , English writer and scholar, frequent visitor to Cornwall and writer on cultureRonald Bottrall Arthur Caddick [citation needed Charles Causley , poet from LauncestonHelena Charles Jack Clemo , poetJane Crewdson Caroline Fox , diaristWilliam Golding W. S. Graham , Scottish poetGeoffrey Grigson , poet and prose writerThomas Hardy , English novelist and poet, met his wife Emma Gifford , while he was working at St Juliot church, near Boscastle [ 19] John Harris , miner and poetRichard Jenkin Ann Kelley Les Merton , varying styles, including dialect poetry; also a publisherChristopher Middleton Bernard Moore Peter Mundy , traveller from Penryn
Playwrights and dramatists
Linguists and writers in Cornish
Henry Jenner
Wilfred Bennetto , poet and novelist writing in Cornish[ 18] John Boson , Nicholas Boson , and Thomas Boson , 18th-century writers in the Cornish language[ 25] Richard Carew , translator and antiquary [ 26] John Davey , of Zennor, last person with any traditional knowledge of Cornish, died 1891: he wrote a few verses in the languageRichard Gendall [ 27] Ken George [ 28] Haldreyn (William Morris), poetSteve Harris, translator and writer[ 29] [ 30]
Julyan Holmes , scholarFred W. P. Jago , linguist and physicianHenry Jenner [ 31] John of Cornwall , medieval grammarian
Bards of the Gorseth Kernow
This is an honorary position, not all of the bards are Cornish or based in Cornwall. For purposes of brevity, those mentioned above are not repeated.
References
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Further reading
William Henry Kearley Wright, West-country Poets: their lives and works (1896)
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