Rhisiart Hincks

   

Senior Lecturer in Welsh and Breton, University of Aberystwyth, Wales

Background

Born at Leicester, England, in 1954, as he child he heard Welsh being spoken when on holidays in Wales and then went on to learn the language with the aid of books and radio courses. In 1975 he graduated at the university at Aberystwyth, with a B.A. in Welsh Literature. In 1979 he completed his M.A. on the work E. Prosser Rhys, a Welsh poet, editor and publisher, and in 1982 obtained a PhD for a thesis on the history of Breton scholarship. In 1978 he was appointed to the staff of the Welsh Department at Aberystwyth, where he now lectures on the history of Welsh and is responsible for a Modern Breton course through the medium of Welsh. He teaches a Breton-medium Welsh correspondence course for the Skol Ober organisation in Brittany, and is an Advisory Examiner for Cymdeithas y Cyfieithwyr (The Association of Welsh Translators). In 2007 he was awarded Urzh an Erminig (The Order of the Ermine) by Skol-Uhel ar Vro / Institut Culturel de Bretagne. He also has an interest in the Basque language and its literature. He contributes to the Breton magazine Al Lanv (Kemper) and edits the bilingual, Welsh and Breton, magazine Breizh / Llydaw for Cymdeithas Cymru-Llydaw (The Brittany-Wales Society).

Publications

Amongst his publications are E. Prosser Rhys 1901-45 (Llandysul, 1980), 1-201, Geriadur kembraeg-brezhoneg / Geiriadur Cymraeg-Llydaweg (Lesneven, 1991; 2nd ed. 1997), i-lxv, 1-194, Alc'hwez d'ar c'hembraeg / Allwedd i'r Gymraeg (Plufur, 1992), 1-168, Geiriau Llydaweg a Fabwysiadwyd gan y Geiriadurwyr Thomas Jones, Iolo Morganwg, William Owen Pughe ac eraill (Aberystwyth, 1993), 1-96, I Gadw Mamiaith mor Hen , 1-256 a translation of a Breton novel by Per Denez: I arall Fyd, 1-99, Yr Iaith Lenyddol fel Bwch Dihangol yng Nghymru ac yn Llydaw / The Literary Language as a Scapegoat in Wales and in Brittany (Aberystwyth 2000), 1-41, Kentelioù Brezhoneg Diazez / Cwrs Llydaweg Sylfaenol (Aberystwyth, [2001]), vol i. i:1-362, vol. ii: 1-85, Geriadurig brezhoneg-kembraeg / Geiriadur Bach Cymraeg-Llydaweg (Fouenant, 2005), Bezañ beleg a zo kargus / Koulz ’vel bezañ relijiuz (Roazhon, 2007), Pawb yn ei Baradwys ei hun / Y Dref a’r Ddinas mewn Barddoniaeth Lydaweg (Roazhon, 2007), and ‘Heb Fenthyca Cymaint a sill ar Neb o Ieithoedd y Byd’ Cymysgiaith a Phuryddiaeth... (Aberystwyth, 2007).

Contact
Rhisiart Hincks,
d/o Adran y Gymraeg,
Yr Hen Goleg,
Prifysgol Aberystwyth,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion,
SY23 2AX
Cymru/Wales

e-mail rhh@aber.ac.uk