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Daniel Owen Considered the Greatest Welsh Language Novelist, Born
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A writer, considered the national novelist of Wales. He was a natural storyteller whose works, set in his own time, introduced a wealth of vivid and memorable characters that have given him a place in Welsh literature comparable to that of Charles Dickens.