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The arts body says it will not survive beyond April 2024 without financial support.

The arts body says it will not survive beyond April 2024 without financial support.

With 2023 coming to a close, we take a look back at some of the best art and cultural offerings to come out of Wales this year. Today, we’re naming our favourite Welsh non-fiction of 2023.

Wales' national theatre has not produced enough engaging work and lost a meaningful connection with artists, a writer has said. National Theatre Wales was told in September its annual £1.6m funding was being cut to nothing by Arts Council of Wales (ACW). Roger Williams, among other members of the artistic community, said the theatre had "lost its way".

Roger Williams says the theatre hasn't been producing enough work as it loses its funding.

Rachel Trezise explores the politics of a tourist industry for the Rhondda and reflects on what such a trade might mean, economically and in terms of identity.

A POPULAR literature festival will return later this month.

In an in-depth interview which delves into his lengthy career, Dai Smith talks to Daryl Leeworthy about politics, fiction and the privilege of writing.

Huw Lawrence walks us through Off the Track, a weighty autobiography from the pen of Dai Smith, available from Parthian in April.

<strong>Letters: </strong>Readers respond to an editorial about the decline and resurgence of the Welsh language