Jackson, Tessa

Tessa Jackson is Artes Mundi’s founding Artistic Director.

James, Sian

Twice-winner of the Yorkshire Post Prize, Sian James is the author of nine novels, including Storm at Arberth and A Small Country. She was born near Llandysul, Cardiganshire and educated at Aberystwyth.

Jebb, Keith

Keith Jebb was born in Shropshire, but lives now near Oxford, where he is a freelance writer and lecturer. This study represents a remarkable publishing debut.

Jenkins, Lucien

Lucien Jenkins was born in 1957. He was educated at Cambridge and London Universities and is currently editor of Early Music. His edition of the Collected Poems of George Eliot was published in 1989. He has translated poems by Rilke, Baudelaire and others.

Jenkins, Mike

A humorous and impassioned reader of his work, Mike Jenkins has performed at numerous and diverse venues, read on radio and TV, and is a previous winner of the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. He is a former editor of Poetry Wales, and a founder of the Red Poets Society, which organises regular performances and publishes an annual magazine of radical poetry. Wanting to Belong, his collection of interlinked short stories about teenagers in a south Wales valley, was Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year 1998, and has been filmed by the BBC.

Johnson, Kate

Kate Johnson was born in Manchester, but has lived more recently in Anglesey and Cardiff.

Johnston, Dafydd

Dafydd Johnston is Professor of Welsh at the University of Wales, Swansea. Amongst his other publications on Welsh literature is A Pocket Guide: The Literatures of Wales (University of Wales press, Cardiff, 1994).

Jones, Glyn

Glyn Jones (1905-1995) was a poet, short-storywriter and novelist. Born in Merthyr Tydfil into a Welsh-speaking family, his education was entirely in English and he became a teacher in Cardiff and Bridgend. In addition to three novels, three volumes of stories and a posthumous Collected Poems, he also published The Dragon Has Two Tongues a seminal piece of autobiographical writing which included personal appreciations of writers in both the languages of Wales. This attempt to bridge the two literary cultures is continued in A People's Poetry.

Jones, John Gwilym

John Gwilym Jones (1914 - 1988) was born in Groeslon and studied at the University of Bangor before moving to London, where he developed an intense interest in the theatre. On his return to Wales he taught in Llandudno and Pwllheli before becoming a producer of radio plays at the BBC in Bangor. He subsequently accepted a post as Lecturer in Welsh at his old university, and was later appointed to a Readership, a post from which he retired in 1971. He published many plays, several works of criticism and two novels, as well as the short fiction represented in ’The Plum Tree’.

Jones, Jonah

Jonah Jones (1919 - 2004) was born near Durham. A pacifist, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war, and on demobilisation moved to north Wales to work as a printer, sculptor and letter-cutter. He was also a novelist, having published ’A Tree May Fall’, about the Easter Uprising in Dublin, and ’Zorn, the life of a Jewish hermit’. He was Director of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin from 1974-78, and artist in residence in Newcastle (1979-80) and Gregynog Fellow in 1981-82.