Eirug Wyn was a Welsh

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 satirical novelist who wrote in the Welsh language

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. He was born Eirug Price Wynne, in Llanbrynmair

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 in Mid Wales

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, and educated at Brynrefail School and Trinity College, Carmarthen

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. He subsequently made his home in Y Groeslon

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 in North Wales

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At the age of 17 he appeared in court accused of not placing an L-plate

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 on the back of his car

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, as was required in the United Kingdom

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 for anyone learning to drive (the L is the initial letter of "learner"). Instead, he had placed a similar plate bearing the letter "D", for dysgwr, the Welsh

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 equivalent. The eventual result of this case was to make D-plates equivalent to L-plates throughout Wales

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He wrote 15 books in the twelve years before his death, and won several prizes for his work at Eisteddfodau, including the prose medal in 1998 and 2000 and the Daniel Owen medal for novelists in 1994 and 2002. He also ran a bookshop in Caernarfon

Caernarfon

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, wrote a column for the Western Mail, and edited Lol!, a satirical magazine. His last book was entitled Y dyn yn y cefn heb fwstash (The Man at the Back Without a Moustache -- ISBN 0-86243-735-0).

He died of myeloma

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on April 25, 2004, at the age of 53.