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In September 2019, it was announced that Gomer would be closing their publishing arm to focus on printing. Its 55 employees were retained but would no longer publish new titles, of which it produced 36 in 2018. This marked the end of 66 years of publishing.
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The company was first established in 1892 and began as a general store and printer; it is owned by the same family to this day. Jonathan Lewis, the great grandson of the company's founder, became managing director in 1995.
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The English list for adults features fiction, history, travel writing, biography, literature, cookery, sport, and visual arts. Authors and artists include
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is an imprint designed to produce English books with a Welsh connection for children. It has published the last seven books to win the
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in the English-language category that honours the year's best book with "authentic Welsh background". Award winners include
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From 2000 to 2012, at least six Gwasg Gomer publications have won one of the two annual Welsh-language Tir na n-Og Awards.
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published by Gomer range from Smot's board books to teenage fiction. There are a number of different series, including
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Gomer published the work of a number of the Welsh language's eminent literary figures, past and present, such as
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Wales Online, "From bread to best sellers in 120 years, the story of Gomer Press", 29 September 2012
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Specialising in books which have a distinctive Welsh identity, Gomer had four distinct lists:
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series), as well as a wide range of titles by prolific author and poet
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Wales
Llandysul
Books
gomer.co.uk
Welsh
Llandysul
Wales
Gillian Clarke
Jim Perrin
Kyffin Williams
Eddie Butler
Idris Davies
Pont Books
Tir na n-Og Award
Welsh Books Council
Graham Howells
Daniel Morden
Jennifer Sullivan
Welsh language
Sali Mali
T. Llew Jones
Islwyn Ffowc Elis
T. Rowland Hughes
Gwenallt
Hywel Teifi Edwards
Angharad Price
Fflur Dafydd
Wales Online, "From bread to best sellers in 120 years, the story of Gomer Press", 29 September 2012
"Long-established Llandysul printing business to 'wind down' publishing division"
"Book publisher to 'wind down' publishing"

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