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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]

Eigra Lewis Roberts
Born	(1939-08-07) 7 August 1939 (age 82) Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales
Language	Welsh
Alma mater	University College of North Wales
Subject	Post-War women in Wales
Notable awards	Multiple awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales
Spouse	Llew
Children	3

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

• Brynhyfryd, 1959
• Mis o Fehefin, 1980[10]
• Return Ticket, 2006 (Gomer Press)
• Parlwr Bach, 2013

References

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