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Article: Artist gives Dylan's death mask to Thomas Festival; LITERATURE: Celebration of poet's life opens.(Arts)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2001
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Byline: KAREN PRICE
NEW York sculptor David Slivka, who cast the death mask of Dylan Thomas, will tonight open a festival in Wales to celebrate the writer's life and work.
And Slivka will present Swansea with a bronze cast of the mask as well as talking about his memories of the poet during the launch of the Dylan Thomas Celebration.
The sculptor was born on the same day as Thomas - October 27, 1914 - and their paths crossed on Thomas's reading tours of the US in the 1950s.
Following the poet's death in November 1953, Slivka, who is 87 ...