Gary Ley | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) |
Nationality | Welsh |
Occupation(s) | writer, sculpture technician |
Known for | Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, Strange Tunnels Disappearing |
Gary Ley (born 1956) is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician. [1] He is based in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. [2]
Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university.
He had a career as a teacher and lecturer, before being involved in the setting up of a sculpture business in 1988. [1]
His first novel, Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, was published in 1998, and is notable for having been a runner-up in Seren’s First Novel Competition. [3] It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales. [4] [5]
In 2002 Ley published his second novel, Strange Tunnels Disappearing. It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the internal conflict in Peru; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel. [6] [7]
Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.