10 minutes with Welsh writer, Fflur Dafydd
Jul 01, 2015, 01:56 PM
A bilingual writer and musician, Fflur is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories in English and Welsh. Her first English novel 'Twenty Thousand Saints' (2008), an innovative reworking of her own Welsh-language 'Atyniad' (2006), earned her the Emerging Writer of the Year Award at the 2009 Hay Festival. A film version of Fflur’s novel 'Y Llyfrgell' (2011) will be released in 2016, written and produced by Fflur herself. She is also a prominent singer-songwriter, and was awarded the title ‘Female Artist of the Year’ in the BBC Radio Cymru awards in 2010.