![]() ![]() ![]() Whilst working as a very junior lecturer in the English department of Swansea University he wrote his first novel ' Lucky Jim' (1954) which enjoyed international critical and artistic acclaim. Should anyone wish to create one, there would be no shortage of destinations with which to populate a Kingsley Amis Trail in Swansea. Then came a number of flats and houses in Sketty, Mumbles and the Uplands. When Amis first came to live in Swansea he stayed in lodgings near Guildhall Green and St. How many people realise that there is another major British writer with a connection to Swansea? Kingsley Amis (1922-95) was born in London and educated at Oxford before finding employment as a junior lecturer at Swansea University in 1949 and lived in the town (as it then was) until 1961. ![]()
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