Editing Welsh literature in English (section)

===Fiction===
In the field of fiction the major figure in the second half of the twentieth century was [[Emyr Humphreys]] (1919). Humphreys' first novel ''The Little Kingdom'' was published in 1946; and during his long writing career he has published over twenty novels. These include ''A Toy Epic'' (1958), ''Outside the House of Baal'' (1965), and a sequence of seven novels, ''The Land of the Living'', which surveys the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Wales. With regard to the fact that he wrote in English, Humphreys refers to "using the language of cultural supremacy to try to express something that comes directly from the suppressed native culture" of Wales.<ref>''Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections'', ed. M. Wynn Thomas. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2002, p. 8.</ref> His most recent work is the collection of short stories, ''The Woman in the Window'' (2009).

[[Bill Hopkins (novelist)|Bill Hopkins]] (1928–2011) was aligned with the [[Existentialism|existentialist]] wing of the "[[angry young men]]" movement. His only novel, ''[[The Divine and the Decay]]'' (1957), created a scandal with its [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] themes, and the reactions made him abandon what would have been his second novel.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Wilson|year=2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sr6_CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT192|title=The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men|location=London|publisher=Robson|isbn=9781861059727}}</ref>

At a local level [[Fred Hando]] (1888–1970) chronicled and illustrated the history, character and folklore of [[Monmouthshire]] (which he also called [[Kingdom of Gwent|Gwent]]), in a series of over 800 articles and several books published between the 1920s and 1960s.