Myrna May Combellack is a British academic researcher and writer of the

Institute of Cornish Studies The Institute of Cornish Studies (, ICS) is a research institute in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, affiliated with the University of Exeter. Formerly at Pool, near Redruth, then in Truro, it is now on the Penryn Campus near Penryn, Co ...

(in the Charles Thomas era), translator of ''

Beunans Meriasek (English: ''The Life of Saint Meriasek'') is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or Meriadoc, patron saint of Camborne, whose veneration was popular in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewhere ...

'' and author of several works of fiction.

Early life

She graduated in English from the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

in 1971.

Doctoral thesis

"A Critical Edition of

" (PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1985)

Publications

Academic work

*1974: ''A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall'' (Series: Special reports; no.1). Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies *1988: ''The Camborne Play''. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran (translation in verse of ''Beunans Meriasek'')

Fiction

*1989: ''The Playing Place''. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran (novel) *2002: ''A Fine Place: the Cornish estate''. Cornish Fiction *2003: ''The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van''. Cornish Fiction ''The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van'' is reviewed a
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*2004: ''Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall''. Cornish Fiction *2005: ''The Mistress of Grammar ndNiobe's Tears''. Cornish Fiction (novella and short story; "Niobe's tears" was first published in ''The new quarterly cave''; v. 2, no. 4, 1977) *2007: ''A Place to Stay: the Cornish bypass'' (Playing Place series). Cornish Fiction

References and notes

Education in Cornwall Academics of the University of Exeter Living people 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists Alumni of the University of York Novelists from Cornwall English women novelists Vassar College alumni 21st-century English women writers 20th-century English women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Cornwall-stub