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Fflur
Dafydd, (b.1978), is a novelist, critic and musician
from Carmarthen, West Wales. She first came to prominence
after winning the Literature Medal at the Urdd National
Eisteddfod in 1999 while still a student of English
at Aberystwyth, an award which led to publishing her
critically-appraised collection of stories and poems,
“Y Gwir Am Gelwydd” (“The Truth About
Lies”) at the age of 20.
Having
gained an MA in Creative Writing from UEA, a PhD on
the poetry of R.S. Thomas from the University of Wales,
she then continued to work in several mediums, writing
for stage, screen and radio before settling on her preferred
medium of fiction. Her first novel Lliwiau Liw Nos (Colours
by Night, Y Lolfa) was published in 2005 while her second
novel Atyniad (Attraction, Y Lolfa) was awarded the
prestigious prose medal at the National Eisteddfod of
Wales in 2006. She is currently working on her first
English novel, Twenty Thousand Saints, which will be
published by Alcemi Press in Autumn 2008.
She
has been a writer-in-residence on Bardsey Island (2002)
and in Helsinki (2006) and travels regularly to literary
festivals across the world. She has held readings in
Croatia, Italy, Germany, Norway and the United States,
and will travel to the Netherlands in November 2007.
She also regularly publishes academic articles on R.S.
Thomas and lectures at the University
of Wales, Swansea.
She
is also a popular singer-songwriter who performs regularly
in Wales and further afield. Read
more.
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