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Popular Welsh-language writer, Islwyn Ffowc Elias, has died aged 79.
Elias wrote countless Welsh-language books, attracting many readers back to the language with his take on capitalism, communism and the differences between rural and urban life. In 1999 his debut novel, 'Cysgod Y Cryman' (The Shadow of The Sickle, 1953), was voted the Wels