Meg Elis

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]

Life and work

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]

References

1. Former Literature Director Meic Stephens; Welsh Academy (1986). The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
2. Sally Baker; B J Brown (1 February 2011). Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives: Women in Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7083-2335-9.
3. "Delyn at a glance". Daily Post. 21 April 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
4. Meic Stephens (15 March 2015). "Mari Ellis: Writer who worked for the New Wales Union and championed women's rights". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
5. "BBC – Llais Merch" (in Welsh). BBC Cymru. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
6. Hywel Teifi Edwards (20 July 2016). The Eisteddfod. University of Wales Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-78316-914-6.
7. "Meg Elis". Y Lolfa. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
8. World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma Press. 1985. p. 35.