Professor Robert Jones FBA

was professor of Welsh language and literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1980 to 1989. Since his retirement he has been working on his website which now consists of 20 volumes. He has researched in Welsh Literature and Linguistics, graduating MA, PhD, DLitt, in the University of Wales, and won the Book of the Year Arts Council Prize on six occasions for poetry, narrative and literary criticism. He became Fellow of the Academy in 1983, and President of Yr Academi Gymreig (Welsh Academy of Letters) since 2010.