Natural Born Writers ; Laura Davis Talks to Niall Griffiths, Whose Career As an Author Began with a Judges Ruling and an Adventure Holiday Trip to Wales

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SINCE pneumonia ended Dylan Thomas's life in 1953, there have been few poets with the talent and the taste for words to help maintain Wales's place in the annals of British literature.

Then, in the year the aeroplanes failed to fall out of the sky and the world carried on much as it had for the previous two millennia, a new voice came down from the mountains.

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Natural Born Writers ; Laura Davis Talks to Niall Griffiths, Whose Career As an Author Began with a Judges Ruling and an Adventure Holiday Trip to Wales

Niall Griffiths's debut novel, Grits, won acclaim from readers and critics alike and his follow-up, Sheepshagger, was credited with giving Welsh literature its first anti-hero.

Yet Wales's new literary genius, the man dubbed the "Welsh Irvine Welsh", was not Welsh at all.

Griffiths was born in Liverpool ...

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