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The festival takes place each year from 27 October - 9 November at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

Dylan playing croquet, copyright Jeff Towns and Dylan's bookstore

Dylan Thomas Festival - "A Home from Home for the Thomases"

This year's festival takes as its theme the considerable number of Thomases who have made a significant contribution to the literature of Wales and beyond. So, as well as Dylan himself, there will be events focusing on R.S.Thomas, Edward Thomas, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, Gwyn Thomas and John Ormond Thomas.

Participants include contemporary writers of the stature of Andrew Motion, Gwyneth Lewis, Alexis Lykiard and Mike Jenkins, and the superb Canadian poetry and music troupe, The Fugitives.

We host the first full Swansea performance of a new one man show on David Lloyd George, and Peter Hain discusses his new book on Nelson Mandela.

This year's festival exhibition includes a display on the Thomases, and the first showing of some doodles by Dylan and artist and illustrator, Dodie Masterman.

A separate brochure will be available in September.

Please contact dylanthomas.lit@swansea.gov.uk for more information.