Myrna May Combellack is a Cornish^[1]^[2] academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies (in the Charles Thomas era), translator of Beunans Meriasek^[3] and author of several works of fiction.

Early life

She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971.^[4]

Doctoral thesis

"A Critical Edition of Beunans Meriasek" (PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1985)

1974: A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall (Series: Special reports; no.1). Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies ISBN 0-903686-05-8
1988: The Camborne Play. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-039-5 (translation in verse of Beunans Meriasek)

1989: The Playing Place. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-041-7 (novel)
2002: A Fine Place: the Cornish estate. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-0-3
2003: The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-1-1^[5]
2004: Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-2-X
2005: The Mistress of Grammar [and] Niobe's Tears. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-3-8 (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 ISBN 0-9541918-4-6

^ Kent, Alan (1998). 'Wives, Sisters and Mothers': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall. Penzance, Cornwall: The Patten Press. p. 40. ISBN 1872229336.
^ Kent, Alan (2013). Towards a Cornish Philosophy: Values, Thought, and Language for the West Britons in the Twenty-First Century. Evertype. p. 63. ISBN 9781782010456.
^ Life of Saint Meriasek.
^ Univ. of York Graduate search website. Archived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van is reviewed at abrax7 Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine