How Green Was My Valley

Richard Llewellyn

Published in 1939, How Green Was My Valley is a beautiful and nostalgic look back at life in Wales

Richard Llewellyn was born in Hendon, London, in 1906. After his death in 1983 it was discovered that his claims to have been born in St Davids in Pembrokeshire were false, although he did have Welsh ancestry.

His turbulent younger years saw him living in a number of countries around the world, and at the age of 19 he joined the Regular Army.

How Green Was My Valley (1939), his first novel, was drafted in India. Although Llewellyn claimed it was inspired by his experiences in the Gilfach Goch area, he based much of it on conversations with mining families from the area. He did, however, spend some time in mining communities with his grandfather.

The novel focuses on the memories of Huw Morgan, a young man growing up in a South Wales mining community, and how the harsh lessons of his youth taught him there was little as beautiful as his memories of Wales.

How Green Was My Valley was made into a 1941 film, directed by John Ford and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara. In the 1970s it was adapted for television by the BBC. The script was written by Elaine Morgan and the series starred Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips and Nerys Hughes.

How Green Was My Valley was chosen by Tower Colliery chairman Tyrone O'Sullivan as his Welsh book of choice.

《我的山谷多么蔥綠》出版于1939年，是對威爾士美好生活滿懷眷戀的回顧

理查德·魯耶林1906年出生于倫敦的亨頓。在他1983年去世以后，人們發現他自己所說的出生于Pembrokeshire(彭布魯克郡)的St Davids(圣戴維斯)是錯誤的，盡管他的確是威爾士人的后裔。

魯耶林的少年時代動蕩不定，他曾流離輾轉于世界各地的許多國家。19歲時，他加入了威爾士正規軍。

《我的山谷多么蔥綠》(1939)是魯耶林的第一部小說，初稿在印度創作完成。盡管他聲稱創作的靈感來源于他在Gilfach Goch(吉爾法奇戈奇)地區的生活經歷，小說很大部分是基于他和該地區礦工家庭的交談。不過，魯耶林確實曾有一段時間和他的祖父住過礦區。

Huw Morgan(胡·摩根)是個生長在南威爾士一礦區的年輕小伙子。小說圍繞他的回憶展開，并揭示了年輕時的慘痛教訓如何使他懂得了世界上沒有什么比他對威爾士的回憶更美好的了。

《我的山谷多么蔥綠》在1941年被拍攝成電影，由John Ford(約翰·福特)執導、Walter Pidgeon(華爾德·皮京)和Maureen O’Hara（莫琳·奧哈拉）主演。20世紀70年代，它又被BBC翻拍成電視劇，由Elaine Morgan(伊萊恩·摩根)編寫劇本，Stanley Baker(斯坦利·貝克)、Sian Phillips(希恩·菲利普斯)和Nerys Hughes(尼瑞斯·休斯)主演。

《我的山谷多么蔥綠》被鐵塔煤礦主席Tyrone O’Sullivan(泰倫·奧沙利文)選為他的威爾士優選書籍。