Fflur Dafydd and Owen Sheers will perform their work in a unique bilingual evening of poetry and song at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Wednesday 28th October 7.45pm.
Fflur Dafydd is a novelist, singer-songwriter and also currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University. She won the Literature Medal in the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006 for her novel Atyniad. In June this year she was announced as the first winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writer of the Year Award. She travels regularly to literary festivals across the world and has held readings in Croatia, Italy, Germany, Norway and the United States.
Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and novelist. His debut prose work The Dust Diaries won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 2005 and his first novel - Resistance - has been translated into nine languages. Owen’s recent collaboration with composer Rachel Portman, The Water Diviner’s Tale, an oratorio for children, was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2007. Owen has also written for Radio, TV and newspapers.
Tickets for this performance are £7 (£5) and can be booked by contacting the Arts Centre ticket office on 01970 62 32 32 or online at www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre
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