Colin Haydn Evans
- Writer
Colin Haydn Evans was born on Sept 13th, 1940, the only child of Welsh parents. He spent his early childhood in Rhodesia, returning to Britain in the late 1940s. He could never see the point of school and left at 15 to a host of temporary jobs with the intention always of becoming a writer.
From an early age he was passionate about film and theatre and poetry and, at one time, particularly the work of Dylan Thomas. He was one of the first to campaign to save the Boathouse at Laugharne from falling into disrepair as well as into American hands.
Colin's first success came with his semi-autobiographical television play, Name for the Day, for the BBC in 1980, after which followed a prolific couple of decades writing plays for BBC Radio Drama. An intensely private person, Colin chose to stay out of the more public world of Theatre and television, preferring to carve an anonymous niche for himself as a Radio Dramatist.
His book, Writing for Radio, published in 1991, was in its day regarded highly for the sound advice it offered on the craft. He was married three times and with his third wife, Pam, settled first in Shropshire and finally in the heart of rural Wales, where he died in August 2009.
From an early age he was passionate about film and theatre and poetry and, at one time, particularly the work of Dylan Thomas. He was one of the first to campaign to save the Boathouse at Laugharne from falling into disrepair as well as into American hands.
Colin's first success came with his semi-autobiographical television play, Name for the Day, for the BBC in 1980, after which followed a prolific couple of decades writing plays for BBC Radio Drama. An intensely private person, Colin chose to stay out of the more public world of Theatre and television, preferring to carve an anonymous niche for himself as a Radio Dramatist.
His book, Writing for Radio, published in 1991, was in its day regarded highly for the sound advice it offered on the craft. He was married three times and with his third wife, Pam, settled first in Shropshire and finally in the heart of rural Wales, where he died in August 2009.
