Simon Brooks

For other people named Simon Brooks, see Simon Brooks (disambiguation).

Dr Simon Brooks (born 1971) is a Welsh academic and writer. He is a former editor of the Welsh language current affairs magazine Barn (1996–2007), as well as founding co-editor of the Welsh language cultural magazine Tu Chwith between 1993 and 1996. A collection of his journalism in Barn was published in 2009. He is also a founding member of the Welsh language pressure group Cymuned, for whom he was a prominent media spokesman between 2001 and 2004, and whose central office he ran. He was a lecturer at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University.

Brooks belongs to a family that supports the Labour Party but is himself a Welsh Nationalist. He left Plaid Cymru in the first decade of the 21st century, after being openly critical of Dafydd Elis-Thomas and rejoined ten years later when his friend Leanne Wood became party leader.

His book Pam Na Fu Cymru (2015) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year award in the non-fiction category. The English edition was published in 2017.

Bibliography

Academic

• O Dan Lygaid y Gestapo: Yr Oleuedigaeth Gymraeg a Theori Lenyddol yng Nghymru (Beneath the eyes of the Gestapo: The Welsh Enlightenment and Literature Theory in Wales) - University of Wales Press 2004
• Pam Na Fu Cymru: Methiant Cenedlaetholdeb Cymraeg (Why Wales Never Was: The Failure of Welsh Nationalism) - University of Wales Press 2015

Journalism

• Llythyrau at Seimon Glyn (ed.) - Y Lolfa 2001
• Yr Hawl i Oroesi (The Right to Exist) - Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 2009