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Guardian Unlimited Books | Obituaries | Obituary: Alun Richards (585 words) |
 | In his evocative memoir Days Of Absence (1986), the writer Alun Richards, who has died of a heart attack aged 74, referred to his deep dislike of "the exclusivity of the immensely unattractive world of men". |
| Richards was born in the market and mining town of Pontypridd, at the foot of the Rhondda valleys, at the start of a decade of depression in Wales. |
| Psychologically, his growing-up was less straightforward: his father abandoned his mother three days after Richards' birth, and never returned; close relatives and older schoolfriends were killed in the war; and his own academic career, shaky at best, took him into teacher training and naval service as an instructor lieutenant. |
| Alun Richards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (99 words) |
| Alun Morgan Richards (October 27, 1929 - June 2, 2004) was a Welsh novelist, best known for his novel, Ennal's Point, about the work of a lifeboat crew in South Wales. |
| Richards was born in Pontypridd, but for most of his life was resident in Swansea, which provided the backdrop for much of his writing. |
| As well as novels and short stories, he wrote extensively for television. |
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