Nobel Nominee
In 1970, Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. His literary works include plays, poetry, novels and essays. He wrote mostly in Welsh, but he also wrote some works in English. By the time of his death in 1985 some rated him as amongst the most celebrated of Welsh writers. Others however consider Saunders Lewis's literary and political reputation is undeserved. In 2001 Lord Elis-Thomas, himself a former Plaid Cymru President, declared in a television documentary that Lewis was "lousy as a politician, lousy as a writer, but a good Catholic".
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