Caradoc Evans
Caradoc Evans (1878-1945), once called 'the best-hated man in Wales', novelist and short story writer was born in Carmarthenshire.
Having moved with his family to Rhydlewis in Ceredigion at the age of 14, he began work as a draper's apprentice in Carmarthen, then moved to London and became a journalist in 1906.
He himself described his satirical stories of non-conformist Wales as 'gloomy, morose and bitter' and they proved to both controversial and influential. They certainly did not endear him to the people of Rhydlewis which served as the model for the fictional village of Manteg in his first book, My People (1915).
Other works include Capel Sion (1916), My Neighbors (1919),the play Taffy: A Play of Welsh Village Life (1924) and the novel Nothing to Pay (1930).