Wilfred Bennetto

Wilfred Melville Bennetto (1902–1994) was a Cornish poet and novelist.

Wilfred Benetto
Born	1902
Died	1994
Pen name	Abransek, Melville Bennetto
Occupation	Novelist, Poet, English teacher at Selhurst Grammar School for Boys, Croydon, Surrey, 1943-1964.[1]
Nationality	British
Period	20th century
Genre	Cornish language

He was elected a member of Gorseth Kernow under the Bardic name of Abransek ('Bushy-browed One') in 1968.^[2]

His poetry celebrated popular contemporary figures in Cornish life as well as the historical and mythological characters favoured in Cornish poetry at the time. He wrote An Gurun Wosek a Geltya ('The Bloody Crown of Celtia'), the first full-length novel in Cornish. It is written from a monarchist perspective, it is a romantic thriller set against the background of contemporary subversion and conflict in the Celtic countries.

Publications as Melville Bennetto

• An Lef Kernewek (1969)
• Kernow (1974).
• Whethlow Pymp Mynysen Penzance :Printed by Headland Printing (1974)
• Whethlow Kernewek (Cornish Stories). (1978)
• And Shall Tregeale Die?, Headland Pubns, Penzance (1979) ISBN 0-905920-09-0
• An Gurun Wosek a Geltya, Dyllansow Truran (1984) ISBN 1-85022-000-X
• The Saints of Cornwall: and Other Poems Dyllansow Truran (1986) ISBN 1-85022-023-9