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Philip Mitchell is an author, playwright and translator. Born in Manchester, England and an established author with BBC Radio Drama, he is perhaps most famous for his acclaimed translation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh language novel Un Nos Ola Leuad, as One Moonlit Night. (ISBN 0811213420)

Mitchell discovered Prichard's novel when studying Welsh A-level (for which it was a set text) and was surprised to find that it had never been translated fully into English. Indeed, there were those who claimed the novel could not be translated into English as it is written entirely in a dialect common in the Bethesda district of North Wales (where Prichard was born) but little-known outside that area.

Canongate Press in Edinburgh first accepted the translation for publication but the rights to publish Mitchell's translation were later acquired by publishers Penguin Books in London and New Directions in New York.

Foreign language translations of Mitchell's English translation have made the book available to readers in several European countries.

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