Myrna Combellack

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

Early life
She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971.

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

Academic work

 * 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)

Fiction

 * 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
 * 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