Eigra Lewis Roberts

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Eigra Lewis Roberts
Born (1939-08-07) 7 August 1939 (age 83)
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales
Language Welsh
Alma mater University College of North Wales
Subject Post-War women in Wales
Notable awardsMultiple awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales
SpouseLlew
Children3

Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 7 August 1939) is a Welsh-language author of about 30 plays, short stories, children's books and novels. [1] She has won several awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. [2]

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Personal life

Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Roberts attended Ffestiniog County School, along with her fellow author John Rowlands and the poet Gwyn Thomas. [2] [3] Having graduated from University College of North Wales in Bangor, [2] she taught in Holyhead and Llanrwst and now lives in Dolwyddelan. [1] [4] Roberts has an honorary MA from the University of Wales. [4] [5]

Career

Aged 20, Roberts won the open novel prize at the 1959 Caernarfon National Eisteddfod of Wales. [1] [2] In the 1960s and 1970s she was known for writing about the lives and dissatisfaction of Welsh women in Post-war Britain, a topic little covered Welsh authors at the time. [6] [7] [8] In the 1980s, she was the screenwriter adapting her novel Mis o Fehefin for the Welsh television programme Minafon. [2] [4]

In 2006, Roberts wrote her first novel in English, the semi-autobiographical Return Ticket. [5] That year she won the Crown in the Swansea National Eisteddfod for a collection of poems about Sylvia Plath. [1] [2] [4] In 2013, her work Parlwr Bach was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award. [9]

Selected works

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