Glyn Hughes (writer)
Glyn Hughes (25 May 1935 – 24 May 2011) was an English poet, novelist and artist. Glyn Hughes was born on 25 May 1935 in Altrincham. Hughes attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and afterwards attended a local art college and later trained to be a teacher. Hughes worked as a teacher for 10 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1968. His 1982 novel Where I Used to Play on the Green  won the Guardian Fiction Prize and David Higham Prize for Fiction. His Millstone Grit was published in 1975 and was included in "William Atkins's top 10 books of the moor" in 2014, and was republished by Little Toller Books in 2022 with an introduction by Ben Myers. Hughes died from cancer on 24 May 2011, at the age of 75. Selected publications 
Towards the Sun: poems & photographs (1971, Harry Chambers, Phoenix Pamphlet Poets, Manchester)
Millstone Grit (1975, Readers Union: )
Where I Used to Play on the Green (1982, Gollancz: )
Life Class (2009, Shoestring: )
A Year in the Bull-box (2011, Arc: )

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1935 births
2011 deaths
People from Altrincham
People from Hebden Bridge
20th-century English poets
20th-century English novelists
21st-century English poets
21st-century English novelists
People educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Writers from Lancashire
Writers from Yorkshire
Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom
Artists from Greater Manchester
Artists from Yorkshire