Llanystumdwy historian, author and travel writer Jan Morris CBE, FRSL, has died.

The 94 year old’s death was announced by her son Twm.

“This morning at 11.40am at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey. She leaves behind on the shore her life-long partner, Elizabeth," he said.

Jan has been writing and publishing books since the 1950s. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968-78), a history of the British Empire; for various books on Wales, including Wales: epic views of a small country (first published as The Matter of Wales in 1984); and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Hong Kong and New York.

She has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Wales and the University of Glamorgan, is an Honorary Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Learned Society of Wales.

She was appointed CBE in 1999 and, in 2005 was awarded the Golden PEN Award by English PEN for ‘a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature’.