Menna Elfyn

Menna Elfyn FRSL (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor who writes with passion of the Welsh and identity.

Background

Elfyn has published ten volumes of poetry and a dozen more of children’s books and anthologies. She has also written eight plays for stage, six radio plays for BBC, two plays for television as well as writing documentaries for television. She was one of 30 poets chosen from around the world by the publisher in 2008 as one of their most successful poets. She co-edited the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry. She has won numerous prizes for her work, the most recent of which is 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 for 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, and her daughter, Fflur Dafydd, is a writer and musician.

Published works

Other works

Awards

She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015.[1]

References

  1. ↑ http://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/

External links

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