Dylan Thomas

(Swansea, Wales, 1914 - New York, 1953). Welsh poet in English language. For some time he worked as a journalist for the South Wales Evening Post and during World War II, as a scriptwriter for the BBC. He also wrote radio and film scripts. He became known as a poet with Eighteen poems (1934). Defended his aesthetic conceptions in Portrait of the puppy artist. He died in New York on November 9, 1953; His last words were: "I've drunk 18 glasses of whiskey, I think it's a record."