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Welsh writer, translator and language activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meg Ann Elis (born 26 October 1950), also known as Marged Dafydd or Margaret Dafydd,[1] is a Welsh writer, translator and language activist.[2] She stood unsuccessfully as a Plaid Cymru candidate for the Delyn constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election in 1999 and again in 2007.[3]
Meg Elis was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Aberystwyth,[1] the daughter of politician T. I. Ellis and his wife, Mari Ellis,[4] and studied at Bangor University. She was a director of the translation company NEWID ("CHANGE"), and has worked as a Welsh/English translator, journalist and radio producer. During the 1980s, she was a member of the protest group at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.[5]
In 1985, her novel, Cyn Daw'r Gaeaf won the Prose Medal,[6] one of the major prizes at the National Eisteddfod in Rhyl. Her other works included Carchar and I'r Gad, both published by Y Lolfa.[7] Her novels have been cited as good examples of the more controversial themes a younger generation of Welsh-language writers dealt with in the 1980s.[8]
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