John Evans
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| John Evans | |
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 John Evans, Welsh writer and filmmaker | |
| Born | 11 December 1960 Pontypridd, Wales |
| 💼 Occupation | Writer, filmmaker |
| 🌐 Website | www |
John Evans (born 11 December 1960)[1] is a Welsh writer, filmmaker, and environmental activist. He started his career as frontman for the punk band The Tax Exiles. The Tax Exiles were regulars at The Roxy, and other punk venues, in 1976–1978. In the early 1980s he embarked on a solo career, and was signed to the Situation 2/4AD record label, recording a single, "Sister Soul", under the name John Marlon.
Since the 1990s he has worked as a full-time writer and filmmaker, and is part of the New Wave of Welsh writing.
His books include Industria, G.B.H., The Acid Real, and a novel, Giants. Evans often writes about his native South Wales Valleys. Evans has also written a number of non-fiction books, among them an economic, social, and cultural examination of post-industrial South Wales, How Real Is My Valley? – Postmodernism & the South Wales Valleys, and the natural history works, The Red Kite in Wales, and Goshawk.
His films include The Acid Real, and Goshawk, which are based on two of his books with the same title.
Evans is also a campaigner and activist for cultural, environmental, and social issues. In 1998, he was nominated for, and won, a Whitbread Award "in recognition of outstanding service to the community.[2] And, in In 2010, faced with the Welsh Assembly Government's controversial plan to cull thousands of badgers in Wales in an attempt to stop the spread of bovine TB, he created Save The Badger,[3] an umbrella organisation which included the RSPCA, Badger Trust, and Welsh Wildlife Trust among its ranks. He also became spokesman for the organisation and, alongside his long-term partner Nicola Dodd and Queen's guitarist Brian May, he was at the forefront of the high-profile campaign which resulted in the badger cull being stopped in Wales. In 2013 he founded Raptor Watch, an organisation to conserve and protect birds of prey in South Wales.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "John Evans / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru". Archived from the original on 2005-04-08. Retrieved 2021-02-07. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Activism". The Official John Evans Website. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-05. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Save The Badger". Archived from the original on 2015-12-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ [1][dead link]
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