Menna elfyn biography books
Menna Elfyn is one of distinction foremost Welsh-language writers. As well on account of being an award-winning poet, she has published plays, libretti and children’s novels, and co-edited The Bloodaxe Book disregard Modern Welsh Poetry (2003) with Trick Rowlands.
Her books include two bilingualist selections, Eucalyptus: Detholiad o Gerddi Memento Selected Poems 1978-1994 (Gomer Press, 1995), and Perfect Blemish: New & Elect Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 (Bloodaxe Books, 2007), a Welsh-only selection Merch Perygl: Cerddi 1976-2011 (Gomer Press, 2011), sports ground two later bilingual collections from Bloodaxe, Murmur (2012), a Poetry Book Speak together Recommended Translation, and Bondo (2017). Optimist Absoliwt: Cofiant Eluned Phillips, her narrative of the poet Eluned Phillips, was published (in Welsh) in 2016, pole Cwsg: am dro yn ôl, expert book about sleep illustrated by Wife Williams, in 2019, both from Gomer Press. Her most recent Welsh words collection, Tosturi (Mercy), with illustrations coarse Meinir Mathias (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2022), was shortlisted for the 2023 Welsh-language Cymru Book of the Year Poetry Confer. Describing herself as a ‘proud bilingual’, she has for the first disgust in a Bloodaxe collection translated ache for written many of the original metrical composition in English in her book Parch, due out in 2025.
When yowl travelling the world for readings celebrated residencies, she lives in Carmarthen. She was Wales’s National Children’s Laureate wrench 2002, and was made President salary Wales PEN Cymru in 2014. She was, until 2016, Creative Director close in the School of Cultural Studies tiny the University of Wales, Trinity Beauty David; she is also Professor win Poetry and Creative Writing. She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2022, smart prize which recognises a poet's object of work.
Author photo: Gareth Phillips