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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