Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas is, for me, the rare poet whose lines you feel in your chest before you understand them. "Do not go gentle into that good night" still functions as pure incantation, defiance distilled to a rhythm. What strikes me most is how oral his genius was: Under Milk Wood and A Child's Christmas in Wales were built for the ear, for the radio, for being spoken aloud. He died at thirty-nine, which feels like a theft. But the density of what he left behind means his voice never quite goes quiet, and I keep returning to it.

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Name (English)

Dylan Thomas

Name (Japanese)

ディラン・トマス

Reading

でぃらん・とます

Born

October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953

Origin

Swansea, United Kingdom

Occupation

poet / writer / playwright / screenwriter / novelist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Awards & achievements

• 1953 Taormina prize

• Official sitehttps://www.dylanthomas.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan%20Thomas
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191023

Tags

• poet
• writer
• playwright

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.