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On Tour: Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers

After performing at venues across Europe and the USA Owen Sheers and Fflur Dafydd are joining forces once again to perform at a number of venues in Wales this October. Together Fflur and Owen will perform their work in a unique bilingual evening of poetry, prose and song. This is an event not to be missed.

Fflur is a novelist, singer-songwriter and also currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University. In June this year she was announced as the first winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writer of the Year Award. This was shortly followed with further success at the National Eisteddfod in Bala, where she was awarded the prestigious Daniel Owen Memorial Prize.

Owen is an award-winning poet and novelist. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries (Faber, 2004) won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2005 and his first novel Resistance (Faber, 2008) has been translated into nine languages. He recently wrote and presented the BBC TV series A Poet's Guide to Britain.

Catch An Evening with Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers at the following venues in October:

Wednesday 28 October 2009
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, 7.45 pm
To book tickets for Aberystwyth, contact the Arts Centre on: 01970 623232 or click here to visit their website.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 7.30 pm
Students Union Trinity College, Carmarthen
To book tickets for Trinity College contact Menna Elfyn on menna@elfyn.fsnet.co.uk  

Friday 30 October 2009
Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 8.00 pm
To book tickets for Swansea, contact The Dylan Thomas Centre on: 01792 463980.

For general information on the event contact Academi on:
029 2047 2266 / post@academi.org