Alun Llewellyn

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David William Alun Llewellyn (born April 17, 1903 in Lewisham near London ; died 1987 ) was a British lawyer and writer, best known for his 1934 science fiction novel The Strange Invaders .

Life

After attending Alleyn's School in Dulwich , London, Llewellyn studied at St. John's College , Cambridge with honors ( Chancellor's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1923 and College Literature Prize in 1924) and graduated in 1924 with a bachelor's degree in history and literature. In 1925 he earned his bachelor's degree in law, in 1928 his master's degree and was admitted to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1927 . In 1931 and 1935 he was a candidate for the Liberals in South Croydon . From 1936 to 1939 he was a contract translator and appraiser for the League of Nations in Geneva, then legal advisor to the Egyptian government in connection with the Montreux Convention Regarding the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt . During the Second World War he worked for the British intelligence service. From 1947 to 1949 he was involved in the compensation for the nationalization of coal mining, from 1951 to 1953 representative of the London Camberwell Borough , then from 1955 to 1972 press spokesman for the Commonwealth Industries Association .

As a writer, Llewellyn worked in several genres. After a first volume of poetry published in 1921, he wrote satirical stories, collected in Confound their Politics (1934), political essays, as well as two plays and a travel guide for Wales . Today he is best known for the novel The Strange Invaders (1934), a scientific romance in the tradition of Richard Jefferies ' After London : In an ice age world civilization has perished, humanity has sunk to a stone age level, the desert Gobi is one of the last habitable areas where the local tribes worship Marx, Lenin and Stalin as saints of a primitive religion. Not enough with that, these afflicted people are also confronted with the invasion of a race of almost invincible lizards.

bibliography

  • Ballads and Songs (poems, 1921)
  • The Emperor of Britain: King Arthur and his Relation to Wales (Lecture, 1930)
  • The Deacon (novel, 1934)
  • Confound their Politics ( short stories, 1934)
  • The Strange Invaders (novel, 1934)
  • with Kenneth Ingram: The Union Society of London: The First Hundred Years (1935)
  • The Soul of Cézar Azan (novel, 1938)
  • Jubilee John: Being the Record of a Pilgrim's Progress Through an Arabian Night (Satire, 1939)
  • The Tyrant from Below: An Essay in Political Revaluation (Essay, 1957)
  • Ways to Love: A Comedy in One Act (Comedy, 1958, first performed in 1968)
  • Shelley Plain (drama, first performed 1960)
  • The World and the Commonwealth (1968)
  • The Shell Guide to Wales (1969)

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  1. ↑ Another date of death: November 27, 1988 in Dublin . See John Clute: Llewellyn, Alun. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Llewellyn, Alun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Llewellyn, David William Alun (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lewisham near London
DATE OF DEATH 1987