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==Early life==
Daniel Owen was born in [[Mold, Flintshire]], (the youngest of six children) into a working-class family, his Father, Robert Owen, being a coal miner, his mother belonged to the family of [http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-EDWA-THO-1739.html Thomas Edwards]. His father and two brothers, James and Robert, were killed on 10 May 1837 in a [[coal mining|mining]] accident when the [[Argoed, Flintshire|Argoed]] mine became flooded. The loss impacted heavily on the family who remained in poverty. Owen received no formal education, but he acknowledged his debt to his Sunday School.
At the age of 12, Owen was apprenticed to a [[tailor]], Angel Jones, who was an Elder with the [[Calvinistic Methodist Church]]. Owen described his apprenticeship as a 'kind of College', and began writing poetry after being influenced by one of his colleagues. Owen used the tailor shop as an opportunity to discuss and argue topics with workers and customers.
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His novels ''Rhys Lewis'' and ''Enoc Huws'' were both published posthumously in the [[Welsh language|Welsh Language]] weekly Newspaper ''[[Y Cymro]].''
Owen is commemorated in Mold, his hometown, by a statue, shopping precinct and cultural centre.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|page=637}}</ref> Owen also gives his name to the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize (Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen), awarded at the [[National Eisteddfod]] for the best unpublished novel of not less than 50,000 words with a strong story.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/08/03/national-eisteddfod-daniel-davies-wins-daniel-owen-novel-prize-91466-29167222/|title=National Eisteddfod: Daniel Davies wins Daniel Owen novel prize|date=3 August 2011|first=Sion|last=Morgan|publisher=walesonline.co.uk|accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> The prize has been awarded since 1978, though if none of the entries are deemed to be of high enough quality the award is not presented.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eisteddfod.org.uk/english/content.php?nID=68|title=Daniel Owen Memorial Prize|publisher=eisteddfod.org.uk|accessdate=21 January 2013}}</ref> [[Mold, Flintshire|Mold]] also holds an annual cultural festival centered
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