Dylan Thomas

Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’
The writer took the £20,000 award for writers under 39 with his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
Ella Creamer
11, May, 2023 @7:00 PM

Dame Paula Rego obituary
Painter whose powerful images of women disrupted the male gaze
Michael McNay
08, Jun, 2022 @3:43 PM

An abandoned plan to move Dylan Thomas’s body from its simple grave | Letter
Letters: Caitlin, Thomas’s widow, wrote to the Home Office in the 1950s requesting his body be exhumed, writes Mike Pender
Letters
09, Feb, 2022 @6:31 PM

Do not go gentle into that hot tub! A luxury spa is the wrong way to remember Dylan Thomas
Just up the road from the poet’s austere grave, I found an upmarket tourist development bearing his name. It feels so wrong
Adrian Chiles
03, Feb, 2022 @7:00 AM

Christmas parties that never happened: the best festive revels in literature
With ‘fictional’ Christmas parties in the news, it seemed only right to pick out for Boris Johnson some other festive shindigs that were figments of the imagination
David Barnett
09, Dec, 2021 @1:01 PM

I could be by the Med: a car-free short break in Swansea
A vibrant waterfront sets the tone for a trip of cultural delights, Dylan Thomas sights, great food and the beauty of the Gower peninsula nearby
Phoebe Taplin
04, Aug, 2021 @5:30 AM

Top 10 stories about bored teenagers | John Patrick McHugh
Writers from Alice Munro to JD Salinger capture the restless ennui and dangerous passions of the do-nothing years before adulthood sets in
John Patrick McHugh
28, Jul, 2021 @12:22 PM

Under Milk Wood review – Michael Sheen steps into Dylan Thomas’s bygone world
Lyndsey Turner’s production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia
Arifa Akbar
23, Jun, 2021 @11:01 PM

Raven Leilani wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘fearless’ novel Luster
US author wins £20,000 award for writers under 39 – the age Thomas died – for her debut about a black woman who starts dating an older white man in an open marriage
Alison Flood
13, May, 2021 @6:45 PM

Michael Sheen to star in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre
Reconfigured Olivier theatre will show Dylan Thomas classic in June reopening with Jack Thorne play set for Dorfman stage
Chris Wiegand
25, Mar, 2021 @10:24 AM

The literary beauty of regional accents | Letters
Letters: Shakespeare, to name but one famous writer, almost certainly spoke with a Midlands accent, writes Salley Vickers. And Rev Jennifer Williamson fondly recalls her lecturer’s comeback
Letters
21, Oct, 2020 @3:49 PM

'Lulled and dumbfound': lockdown version of Under Milk Wood released
Key workers and youth theatre create strikingly apposite film of Dylan Thomas’s work about hushed Welsh village
Steven Morris
05, May, 2020 @9:44 AM
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