The Writers of Wales Database

DAFYDD, FFLUR

Website: www.fflurdafydd.com

Novelist and singer-songwriter Fflur Dafydd is a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA. She was selected in 2005 for the Scritture Giovani project for emerging European writers, and has undertaken residencies in Helsinki and on Bardsey Island. Fflur has a PhD on the poetry of R.S. Thomas and currently lectures in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She is the author of three Welsh language novels and one English novel, Twenty Thousand Saints (Alcemi, 2008). Fflur was awarded the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 2006, and Y Llyfrgell (Y Lolfa, 2009) won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the 2009 National Eisteddfod. Fflur's next title in Welsh, Heb Glustiau,will be published by Y Lolfa in 2010.

Photo copyright Academi / John Briggs

Reviews:
With respect to Twenty Thousand Saints (Alcemi, 2008)

"…The most compelling novel I’ve read in years: a love-story, a thriller, and a profound meditation on language and identity…"
Peter Florence, Directorof Guardian Hay Festival

"…A wild, exhilarating read…"
Catherine Taylor, The Guardian


Selected Publications:
Y Gwir am Gelwydd (Gwasg Dwyfor, 1999)
Magpie (Gwasg East Anglia, 2000)
Diwrnod Dwynwen (Gwasg Sgript Cymru, 2003)
Gwlad y Dreigiau (Gomer, 2004)
Lliwiau Liw Nos (Y Lolfa, 2005)
Cyfres Dramâu’r Drain: Helfa Drysor (Y Lolfa, 2006)
Welsh Icons (Gomer, 2007)
Twenty Thousand Saints (Alcemi, 2008)
Y Llyfrgell (Y Lolfa, 2009)
Awr Y Locustiaid (Y Lolfa, 2010)
Heb Glustiau (Y Lolfa, 2011)
How Culhwch Won Olwen (Seren, 2011)
The White Trail (Seren, 2011)

Contributed to:
Corachod Digartref (contributor) (Carreg Gwalch, 2003)
Aber - Essays on Aberystwyth (contributor) (Gomer, 2008)
Ugain Stori Fer - Cyfrol 1 (contributor) (Y Lolfa, 2009)

Twenty Thousand Saints (Alcemi, 2008)

One hot summer, an island which is practically empty except for twitchers, becomes a bustling community of tourists, archaeologists, nuns, dolphin-watchers, a reality TV crew and two writers bursting to tell a story. This is a black comedy about spies, privacy and intrusion … and how the most important things happen off-camera.

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