Menna Gallie

Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie (1920 - 1990) was a Welsh novelist and translator.

She was born in Ystradgynlais. She married the philosopher W. B. Gallie in 1940, with whom she had a son and a daughter.^[1]

She is best known for her novels in the English language, and as the translator of Caradog Prichard's Un Nos Ola Leuad, under the title Full Moon.

One reviewer commented on her "characteristically robust humor."^[2]

Novels

• Strike for a Kingdom (1959); shortlisted for Gold Dagger Award
• Man's Desiring (1960)
• The Small Mine (1962)
• Travels with a Duchess (1968)
• You're Welcome to Ulster! (1970)
• In These Promiscuous Parts (1974)

References

1. ^ hwj://oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/63/1/369 The Life and Works of Menna Gallie, accessed 28 December 2009
2. ^ http://www.osun.org/Menna+Gallie-pdf.html OSUN website, accessed 28 December 2009

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Name	Gallie
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Date of birth	1920
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Date of death	1990
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