![]() ![]() ![]() He found the experience uplifting and refocused him to work harder at gaining an education, eventually gaining a degree in English. Griffiths found himself in trouble with the law during his adolescence, and at the age of 15 he was sent on an Outward Bound course in Snowdonia in North Wales. ![]() In 1976 his family emigrated to Australia, but returned three years later after his mother became homesick. In future years Griffiths continued to cite Berry as a major influence, along with writers Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr. Berry, who wrote from the viewpoint of the industrial working class, but in a more earthy and centred style then many of his more celebrated peers, "spoke" to Griffiths who was captured by the language and style of the writing. As a nine-year-old boy Griffiths found a second-hand copy of a novel by Rhondda writer Ron Berry in a junk shop. Griffiths was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, but had a long family link to Welsh roots in West Wales. His works include two novels Grits and Sheepshagger, and his 2003 publication Stump which won the Wales Book of the Year award. ![]() Niall Griffiths (born 1966) is an English author of novels and short stories, set predominantly in Wales. Modernism, post-modernism, transgressive fiction ![]()
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