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Llyfrgell - Enillydd Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen 2009
(Lolfa)
ISBN: 9781847711694
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BARDSEY NUNS TO ARMED LIBRARIANS
Hot
on the heels of her success at the Guardian Hay
Festival, where she was named Oxfam Hay Emerging
Writer of the Year for her first English novel
Twenty Thousand Saints, is yet another prestigious
literary prize for Fflur Dafydd. On Tuesday 4
August, Fflur scooped the Daniel Owen Memorial
Prize at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for
a controversial Welsh-language novel, Y Llyfrgell
(The Library.) This is the second Eisteddfod prize
for Fflur, who won the coveted Prose Medal in
2006, and this is also her fourth novel. Fflur
was presented with a £5000 cash prize and
the Daniel Owen Memorial Medal, as well as receiving
a special hard-bound copy of her novel.
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Llyfrgell was inspired by Fflur's many visits
to the National Library of Wales as a PhD student,
back in 2004. She said,
“I
was there every day for three months, and found
myself dreaming up all sorts of dramatic scenarios!
As one of our most important national institutions,
the Library holds all our secrets and history,
but because of its decorum and its silence, this
is the last place one would expect any kind of
uprising. That tension interests me as a writer.”
Reviews / More:
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'Y Llyfrgell': National
Library of Wales
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'Y Llyfrgell': Western
Mail
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'Y Llyfrgell': Meirion
and District National Eisteddfod, 2009
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