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Lleucu Roberts | |
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| Born | 27 September 1964 Aberystwyth, Wales |
| Language | Welsh and English |
| Education | Aberystwyth University |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Notable works | Stuff Guto S Thomas Well, Little Wales! Some Kind of Insult |
| Notable awards | Tir na n-Og Award (2011) |
Lleucu Roberts (born 27 September 1964) is a Welsh author.
Biography
[edit]Born in Aberystwyth, she grew up in Ceredigion's Bow Street, taking courses at Rhydypennau Primary School, Penweddig Comprehensive School, and Aberystwyth University.
In 2011 she won a Tir na n-Og Award for her novel Stuff Guto S Thomas.[1] She went on to win the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize and the Prose Medal at the Carmarthenshire National Eisteddfod 2014, becoming the first person to win the two main prose prizes in the same year.[2][3] Roberts also writes radio and television scripts.[4]
Roberts won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize for a second time, at the 2021 Eisteddfod AmGen, for her novel Hannah-Jane.[5]
Her works include Songs of Peace (1991), Turning a Deaf Ear (2005), Dear Little Spot (Annwyl Smotyn Bach) (2008),[6] The Girl on the Road (2009), Stuff- Guto S. Tomos (2010), Well, Little Wales! (2011) and Some Kind of Insult (2012). She currently lives in Rhostryfan, Gwynedd, with her husband and two daughters and sons.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "The 2011 Tir na n-Og Awards - Welsh Books Council". www.cllc.org.uk.
- ↑ "Lleucu Roberts wins the 'double' | National Eisteddfod". eisteddfod.wales. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ↑ Crump, Eryl (6 August 2014). "LOOK: National Eisteddfod 2014: Writer Lleucu Roberts revisits novel to win literature prize". Daily Post (North Wales).
- ↑ Crump, Eryl (7 October 2018). "Author Meic Povey's last two works to be seen on stage and screen". Daily Post.
- ↑ "Lleucu Roberts yn cipio Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen". Newyddion S4C (in Welsh). 3 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
- ↑ "How writers of endangered languages are embracing sci-fi". Boston Globe.
- ↑ "Lleucu Roberts: Biography and Bibliography | Y Lolfa". www.ylolfa.com. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
- ↑ "Y 'dybl' i Lleucu Roberts | Eisteddfod Genedlaethol". eisteddfod.cymru. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
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- Living people
- 1964 births
- 20th-century Welsh novelists
- 21st-century Welsh novelists
- 21st-century Welsh women writers
- 21st-century Welsh writers
- Alumni of Aberystwyth University
- Welsh children's writers
- Welsh radio writers
- Welsh television writers
- People from Llanwnda, Gwynedd
- British women children's writers
- Women radio writers
- British women television writers
- British women screenwriters
- Daniel Owen Memorial Prize winners
- Writers from Aberystwyth
- 20th-century Welsh women novelists
- 21st-century Welsh women novelists