Biography

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.