Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn FRSL (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor.

Elfyn has published ten volumes of poetry and a dozen more of children’s books and anthologies. She has also written eight plays for the stage, six radio plays for the BBC, and two plays and several documentaries for television. She co-edited the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. She has won numerous prizes for her work, including a Creative Arts prize to write a book on sleep.

When Elfyn issued her bilingual selected poems Eucalyptus, (Gwasg Gomer 1995), Tony Conran described her as "the first Welsh poet in 1500 years to have her work known outside Wales". Her second bilingual volume, Cell Angel (1996), was hailed by the same critic as the most significant collection of Welsh poetry in 40 years.

Her work has been translated into eighteen languages including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Lithuanian. She is Writing Director of Masters Programme in Creative Writing at Trinity University College, Carmarthen and a Literary Fellow at Swansea University.

Menna lives in Llandysul. Her daughter, Fflur Dafydd, is a writer and musician.

She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.

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