Siân Melangell Dafydd

Siân Melangell Dafydd (born 28 April 1977) is a Welsh novelist, poet and translator.[1] In 2009 she won the National Eisteddfod Literature Medal for her first novel, Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing, Gomer, 2009).[2] For six years she worked as the co-editor of literary review Taliesin and Y Neuadd. Since 2001, she practices yoga in order to access greater creativity, directing workshops about yoga and writing across Europe.[3] She teaches Creative Writing at the American University of Paris, and is a course leader for a Master of Research degree in Transnational Creative Writing for Bath Spa University.[4] She's known for working with foreign-language writers( namely those who write in Indian languages and minority UK and international languages), such as Malayalam poet Anita Thampi, with whom she wrote a three-language poetry compilation, Dŵr Arall(Different Water). She often works together with other artists' works, such as Aomori( a project by Sioned Huws) and Ancestral Houses: The Lost Mansions of Wales( co-written with Paul White the artist and Damian Walford Davies the poet).[5]

References
  1. Dafydd, Sian Melangell (2013-09-19). "Paper People: A story in 6 floors by Siân Melangell Dafydd". Wales Arts Review. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. "BBC Cymru - Cylchgrawn - Adolygiadau - Sian Melangell Dafydd: Y Trydydd Peth". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. McCrum, Kirstie (2015-03-14). "Writing teacher Sian Dafydd on why yoga helps her award winning writing". northwales. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  4. "Siân Melangell Dafydd". www.bathspa.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  5. "Y Trydydd Peth (The Third Thing) - Wales Literature Exchange". waleslitexchange.org. Retrieved 2019-08-15.


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