Daniel Huws

Daniel Huws FLSW (born 1932) is the world's leading authority of the last hundred years on Welsh manuscripts, with contributions that are held to represent a significant advance on those of John Gwenogvryn Evans.

He is noted in particular for his studies of individual manuscripts, and these, alongside portraits of significant Renaissance collectors, made up his work ''Medieval Welsh Manuscripts'', now recognised as the key academic text of this dimension of Wales' written history and culture. As of 2015, his work focuses on the history of Welsh manuscripts continuing up to 1800.

His work has also included other projects on Wales, including ''The Poets of the Princes'', ''The Poets of the Gentry'', ''Prose Texts from Manuscripts'', and ''The Poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym''. He has written on Welsh music, as well as publishing three volumes of poetry with Secker and Warburg and Faber and Faber. A university friend and associate of Ted Hughes, he has written a memoir of the poet.

He was awarded the Derek Allen Prize by the British Academy in 2006.

He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011. Provided by Wikipedia