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I.C. (Churck) Rapoport is known both for his work as a photojournalist in the 1960s and more recently as a TV and film screenwriter. Rapoport's photography career is noted for his 'Life' magazine photo essay on the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._C._Rapoport)

Award-winning poet, author, editor, librettist, literary critic and former journalist and courtier Grahame Davies was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahame_Davies)

For the 1966 Aberfan disaster see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

Poet Ceri Wyn Jones was born in Welwyn Garden City and moved to west Wales as a child. He studied at Aberystwyth University and was for ten years Head of English at Llandysul Comprehensive School before joining Gomer Press in 2002. He won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales Bala in 1997, the Crown, again in Bala, in 2009 and the Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales Carmarthenshire in 2014. He was Wales Children's Poet from 2003 to 2004. (https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceri_Wyn_Jones (translated)).