Wilfred Bennetto

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name = Wilfred Benetto


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pseudonym = Abransek, Melville Bennetto
birthdate = 1902
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deathdate = 1994
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occupation = Novelist, Poet
nationality = British
period = 20th Century
genre = Cornish language
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Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902-1994), was a Cornish poet and novelist.

He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of "Abransek" ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968 [ [http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/archives/newbards/bard1960s.htm List of bards by decade - 1960s on Gorseth website.] .

His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote "An Gurun Wosek a Geltya" ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia'), the first full-length novel in Cornish. It is written from a monarchist perspective, it is a romantic thriller set against the background of contemporary subversion and conflict in the Celtic countries.

Publications as Melville Bennetto

*"An Lef Kernewek" (1969)
*"Kernow" (1974).
*"Whethlow Pymp Mynysen" Penzance :Printed by Headland Printing (1974)
*"Whethlow Kernewek (Cornish Stories)." (1978)
*"And Shall Tregeale Die?", Publisher: Headland Pubns, Penzance (1979) ISBN 0905920090
*"An Gurun Wosek a Geltya", Truran (1984) ISBN 185022000X
*"The Saints of Cornwall: And Other Poems" Dyllanslow Truran (1986) ISBN 1850220239

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