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Fflur Dafydd
Fflur Dafydd
Fflur Dafydd (b. 1978) is the author of four novels. She was named the Oxfam Hay Emerging Writer of the Year 2009 for her novel Twenty Thousand Saints - and has been awarded Wales’ top prizes for fiction: the Literature Medal for Atyniad in 2006 (Attraction, Y Lolfa) and the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize for Fiction for Y Llyfrgell in 2009 (The Library, Y Lolfa).
She lectures in Creative Writing at Swansea University and has also released three albums as a singer-songwriter.
She was recently chosen by the British Council as the Wales/UK participant in Iowa University’s International Writing Program 2009, and has also been a writer in residence in Helsinki and on Bardsey Island.
Fflur's personal website
Listing on the Welsh Literary Academi website
An interview from the Book Depository website
An article from the University of Iowa
A video of Fflur performing songs in Welsh
A news article about the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize for Fiction, whichh Fflur won.