Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie (1920 - 1990) was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 novelist and translator.

She was born in Ystradgynlais

Ystradgynlais

Ystradgynlais is a town on the River Tawe in south west Powys; it is the second largest town in Powys, Wales. The town grew around the iron-making, coal-mining and watch-making industries....

. She married the philosopher W. B. Gallie

W. B. Gallie

Walter Bryce Gallie was a Scottish social theorist, political theorist, and philosopher.Bryce Gallie, the son of an engineer, was born in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow on 5 October 1912....

 in 1940, with whom she had a son and a daughter.

She is best known for her novels in the English language, and as the translator of Caradog Prichard

Caradog Prichard

Caradog Prichard was a Welsh poet and novelist writing in Welsh. His daughter, Mari Prichard, was married to the late Humphrey Carpenter....

's Un Nos Ola Leuad, under the title Full Moon.

One reviewer commented on her "characteristically robust humor."

Novels

• Strike for a Kingdom (1959); shortlisted for Gold Dagger
  Gold Dagger
  The Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award....
  
  Award
• Man's Desiring (1960)
• The Small Mine (1962)
• Travels with a Duchess (1968)
• You're Welcome to Ulster! (1970)
• In These Promiscuous Parts (1974)