Arts and Literature
- Teenage actor Gethin Rhys Williams is killed in an accident in Spain.
- Connie Fisher wins the Wilbert Lloyd Roberts Scholarship in the National Eisteddfod "Songs from the Shows" competition.
- Menna Elfyn is named Poet Laureate for the Children of Wales.
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and/or literature:
“The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure—if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.”
—John Drummond (b. 1934)
“If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)