Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 39
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood.
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5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, the birthplace of Dylan Thomas
The main surviving structure of the former Swansea Grammar School on Mount Pleasant, mostly destroyed during the Swansea Blitz of 1941, was renamed the Dylan Thomas Building in 1988 to honour its former pupil. It was then part of the former Swansea Metropolitan University campus
Memorial plaque on the former Mount Pleasant site of Swansea Grammar School
The Little Theatre relocated to Swansea's Maritime Quarter in 1979 and was renamed the Dylan Thomas Theatre in 1983![Dylan and Caitlin at Brown's Hotel, Laugharne in 1938. Taken by their Blashford family friend, the photographer and artist Nora Summers.[94]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Dylan_Thomas_and_Caitlin_Macnamara_at_Brown%E2%80%99s_Hotel%2C_Laugharne%2C_South_Wales_in_1938.png/1280px-Dylan_Thomas_and_Caitlin_Macnamara_at_Brown%E2%80%99s_Hotel%2C_Laugharne%2C_South_Wales_in_1938.png)
Dylan and Caitlin at Brown's Hotel, Laugharne in 1938. Taken by their Blashford family friend, the photographer and artist Nora Summers.[94]
The Boathouse, Laugharne, the Thomas family home from 1949
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He also wrote stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime, and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".
