Fflur Dafydd

Fflur Dafydd is an award winning novelist, singer-songwriter and musician. Although predominantly publishing in Welsh, she also writes in English. She records in Welsh, and her work is regularly played on Radio Cymru.

Born in 1978, she is the daughter of Welsh poet Menna Elfyn. Dafydd grew up in Llandysul, a Welsh-speaking community, and although she received the majority of her education in Welsh, she chose to study English in Higher Education.

She studied at Aberystwyth University, graduating in English, and it was while she was here that she first came to prominence, in 1999, when as a student she won the Literature Medal at the Urdd National Eisteddfod at Lampeter. This success led to the publication of "Y Gwir Am Gelwydd" (The Truth About Lies), a collection of 12 poems and 5 short stories.

After graduating from Aberystwyth she gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2000, followed by a PhD on the poetry of R.S. Thomas from Bangor University in 2001.

Today Fflur is highly successful in the very different fields of both literature and contemporary music, such that some people have failed to realise that this is one and the same person. She now lives in Carmarthen, but travels widely with her work.

Fflur has written for stage, screen and radio, and her wide repertoire includes short fiction, journalism, lecturing, songwriting, screenwriting, poetry, novels, plays and short films.

She was nominated for a D.M. Davies award at the Cardiff International Film Festival for her short film "Bathtime" (2002).

In 2005 her first novel – "Lliwiau Liw Nos" (Colours by Night) was published, followed in 2006 by her second novel "Atyniad" (Attraction), which won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod in Swansea. Her first novel had in the previous year been short-listed for the Prose Medal.

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