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Fflur
Dafydd is a novelist from Carmarthen who publishes in
both Welsh and English. Since publishing her first novel,
Lliwiau Liw Nos in 2005, she has published
6 fiction volumes. Two of her Welsh-language novels,
Atyniad (Y Lolfa, 2006) and Y Llyfrgell
(Y Lolfa, 2009) have been awarded the major fiction
awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the Prose
Medal (2006) and the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize (2009),
making her the only female writer, and the youngest
writer to date to have won both awards. Her first English
language novel, Twenty Thousand Saints (Alcemi,
2008) – an innovative reworking and adaptation
of the Welsh-language novel, Atyniad, also
won the inaugural Oxfam Hay Emerging Writer of the Year
Award at the Hay Festival 2009. As a result of these
successes, she was chosen by the British Council as
the first ever Welsh participant in the prestigious,
world-renowned International Writing Program at Iowa
University. She also holds an MA in Creative Writing
from UEA, a PhD from Bangor University, and currently
lectures in creative writing at Swansea University.
She
is also a prominent singer-songwriter, who has produced
4 albums to date – and she was awarded the title
of ‘Female Artist of the Year’ in the BBC
Radio Cymru awards in 2010. She performs regularly in
Wales and has also appeared in major festivals in America
and Europe.
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