Fflur Dafydd 

Guest of the ilb 2005

Fflur Dafydd was born in 1978 in Carmarthen, Wales, where she lives today. The bilingual author studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her literary career began when she won the Literature Medal in the contest Urdd National Eisteddfod. In 1999 her short story collection »Y Gwir am Gelwydd« (t: The truth about lies) appeared, and in 2003 she was a writer-in-residence on the island of Bardsey. Her short film »Bathtime« was nominated for the DM Davies Award at the International Film Festival in Cardiff. Dafydd writes plays, stories, screenplays and columns for theatre, film and radio, and she is the editor of the Welsh cultural magazine »tu chwith«.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Y Gwir am Gelwydd
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Urdd Gobaith Cymru
Llanbedr Pont Steffan, 1999

A Shifting/Identity Never Your Own
University of Wales,
Thesis (Ph. D.), 2004

Helfa drysor
Y Lolfa
Talybont, Ceredigion, 2005

Lliwiau liw nos
Y Lolfa
Talybont, Ceredigion, 2005

Atyniad
Y Lolfa
Talybont, Ceredigion, 2006

Welsh Icons
Gomer
Llandysul, 2007