Hazel Walford Davies

Hazel Walford Davies (1940 – 21 November 2025) was a Welsh academic and writer. She was a lecturer at Aberystwyth University[1], where she became a professor, and was chair of the management board of the Centre for Higher Education from 2006 to 2011, which led to the creation of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. She was visiting professor of Literary, Cultural and Theatre Studies, University of South Wales.

Life and career

Hazel Walford Davies was born in the area of Bancffosfelen, Carmarthenshire, and attended Ysgol y Gwendraeth before going on to study at Aberystwyth and Oxford. In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[2]

She was an expert on Welsh drama.[3] In 2021 she won the Sir Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize 2020, awarded by the University of Wales, for her Welsh-language book O.M.: Cofiant Syr Owen Morgan Edwards.[4]

Her twin sons Jason and Damian Walford Davies are also academics.[5]

Davies died on 21 November 2025, at the age of 85.[6]

Publications

  • Bro a Bywyd: Syr O. M. Edwards 1858-1920 (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 1988)[7]
  • Saunders Lewis a Theatr Garthewin (Gwasg Gomer, 1995)[8]
  • State of Play - Four Playwrights of Wales (Gwasg Gomer, 1998)[9]
  • Llwyfannau Lleol (Gwasg Gomer, 2000)[10]
  • Now You're Talking: Drama in Conversation (Parthian Books, 2005)[11]
  • One Woman, One Voice (Parthian Books, 2005)[12]
  • Y Theatr Genedlaethol yng Nghymru (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 2007)[13]
  • O.M.: Cofiant Syr Owen Morgan Edwards (Gwasg Gomer, 2020)[14]

References

  1. ^ Julie McNicholls Vale (26 November 2025). "Tributes pour in for Professor Hazel Walford Davies, prominent Welsh cultural leader". Cambrian News. Archived from the original on 26 November 2025. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Professor Hazel Walford Davies, FLSW". Learned Society of Wales. Archived from the original on 14 December 2025. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Yr Athro a'r awdur, Hazel Walford Davies, wedi marw". BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). 25 November 2025. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Professor Hazel Walford Davies wins prize for her biography of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards". Learned Society of Wales. 12 January 2021. Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  5. ^ "Yr Athro Damian Walford Davies - Pobl - Prifysgol Caerdydd". Cardiff University (in Welsh). Archived from the original on 17 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Professor Hazel Walford Davies (1940-2025)". Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  7. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford (1988). Syr O.M. Edwards. Caerdydd: Barddas. ISBN 0946329354. OCLC 19323452.
  8. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford (1995). Saunders Lewis a Theatr Garthewin. Llandysul, Dyfed: Gomer. ISBN 1859022928. OCLC 36671650.
  9. ^ Davies, Hazel (1998). State of play: four playwrights of Wales. Llandysul: Gomer. ISBN 1859025749. OCLC 40755034.
  10. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford, ed. (2000). Llwyfannau lleol. Llandysul: Gomer. ISBN 1859029027. OCLC 45736839.
  11. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford; Thomas, Ed; Edwards, Dic; Way, Charles; Eirian, Siôn; Miles, Gareth (2005). Now you're talking : contemporary Welsh dramatists in conversation with Hazel Walford Davies. Aberteifi: Parthian. ISBN 1902638484. OCLC 62760521.
  12. ^ Morgan, Sharon (2000). Davies, Hazel Walford (ed.). One woman, one voice: plays. Aberteifi: Parthian Books. ISBN 1902638085. OCLC 45766940.
  13. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford (2007). Y theatr genedlaethol yng Nghymru. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. ISBN 9780708318898. OCLC 190751750.
  14. ^ Davies, Hazel Walford (2019). O.M. Llandysul: Gwasg Gomer. ISBN 1848518641. OCLC 1104640356.
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