Lleifior is the name of a fictional farm in Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 language novels by Islwyn Ffowc Elis

Islwyn Ffowc Elis

Islwyn Ffowc Elis was one of Wales's most popular Welsh-language writers.Born Islwyn Ffoulkes Ellis in Wrexham, Elis was educated at the University of Wales colleges of Bangor and Aberystwyth. During World War II he was a conscientious objector and he began writing poetry and prose, winning the...

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The novels, both set in the 1950s, Cysgod y Cryman (The Shadow of the Sickle) and Yn ol i Leifior (Back to Lleifior) by the Welsh

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 language author Islwyn Ffowc Elis

Islwyn Ffowc Elis

Islwyn Ffowc Elis was one of Wales's most popular Welsh-language writers.Born Islwyn Ffoulkes Ellis in Wrexham, Elis was educated at the University of Wales colleges of Bangor and Aberystwyth. During World War II he was a conscientious objector and he began writing poetry and prose, winning the...

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The first follows the Vaughan

Vaughan (surname)

Vaughan is a surname, originally Welsh though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon It derives from the Welsh word "bychan", meaning small. The word mutates to fychan , and so corresponds to the English name Little...

 family dynasty in post war rural Powys

Powys

Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...

. Both books were translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

Both books were best-sellers in Wales. And Cysgod y Cryman was brought to the stage and television screen.

The most recent stage production by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2007 was considered a critical and public success. Played to full theatres in Wales and on the 5th of April 2007 in the Bloomsbury Theatre in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, produced by Sion Eirian and starred Owen Garmon