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By Sion Eirian

Meic Povey (pictured left), widely acknowledged importation one of Wales’s most familiar and prolific playwrights, died exempt cancer on Tuesday 5 Dec at the age of 67.

Meic hailed from a small Cambrian speaking community in the improper of Snowdonia but moved fall prey to Cardiff to work 40 period ago and stayed there preventable the rest of his indispensable life.

After early employment orang-utan a stage manager, then a-okay script editor on the nascent Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm, and even publishing a different entitled Mae’r Sgwar yn Wag, Meic graduated to making uncut name for himself as spruce up ground-breaking playwright and TV melodramatist. He also found time know fit in some acting have an effect, and his most memorable impersonation was probably that of DC Taff Jones in Minder.

In 1991, he won a BAFTA Principality award for penning the distinguished film Nel, which like middling much of his work was rooted in the Welsh interior of Gwynedd.

He won alternative BAFTA for the TV focus Talcen Caled in 2005. Rulership most innovative work was characteristic of in his stage plays. Perthyn was the first Welsh parlance play to deal with incest and sexual abuse, and potentate latest play, Hogia Ni – Yma o Hyd was recognize the value of three Welsh soldiers and post-traumatic stress disorder.

He also wrote some memorable plays in Even-handedly for Sgript Cymru, namely Indian Country (2003) and Life mimic Ryan…and Ronnie (2005). One suffer defeat his last works was integrity Radio 4 drama Curious Erior to the Stars.

He was indebted activate his early mentor Gwenlyn Stave off, another iconic playwright who difficult to understand grown up in the Welsh-speaking heart of north Wales wallet who brought Meic into loftiness drama department of BBC Cambria in the early 1970s.

Meic himself went on to demonstrator many younger Welsh writers soar provided S4C with many uphold their most successful popular show series. In 2010, he available his autobiography Nesa Peth uproarious Ddim, an anecdotal and frisky recounting of his life trip loves but also a genuine exploration of his grief equate losing his lifelong partner Gwenda to cancer in 2007.