On this date…14th January 1933

An apology and retraction was made on the front page of the South Wales Evening Post.
Nina Hamnett’s book Laughing Torso, which the Post’s junior reporter Dylan Thomas referred to as a ‘banned book’ in his article of January 7th 1933 entitled Genius and Madness Akin in the World of Art, had not in fact been banned as reported.

Young Thomas would ‘leave’ his position on the staff of the newspaper soon after…

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on 14 January, 2017 at 5:30 pm Leave a Comment
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