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Wilfred Bennetto

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Wilfred Benetto
Born1902
Died1994
Pen nameAbransek, Melville Bennetto
OccupationNovelist, Poet, English teacher at Selhurst Grammar School for Boys, Croydon, Surrey, 1943-1964.[1]
NationalityBritish
Period20th century
GenreCornish language

Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902–1994) was a Cornish poet and novelist.

He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Abransek ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968.[2]

His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote An Gurun Wosek a Geltya ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia'), the first full-length novel in Cornish. It is written from a monarchist perspective, it is a romantic thriller set against the background of contemporary subversion and conflict in the Celtic countries.

Publications as Melville Bennetto

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  • An Lef Kernewek (1969)
  • Kernow (1974).
  • Whethlow Pymp Mynysen Penzance :Printed by Headland Printing (1974)
  • Whethlow Kernewek (Cornish Stories). (1978)
  • And Shall Tregeale Die?, Headland Pubns, Penzance (1979) ISBN 0-905920-09-0
  • An Gurun Wosek a Geltya, Dyllansow Truran (1984) ISBN 1-85022-000-X
  • The Saints of Cornwall: and Other Poems Dyllansow Truran (1986) ISBN 1-85022-023-9

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