Siân Melangell Dafydd was born in Dolgellau, Wales. „Y Trydydd Peth” (The Third Thing) is Siân Melangell Dafydd’s first novel and won her the coveted 2009 National Eisteddfod Literature Medal. With a background in art history, she has worked in galleries in London and abroad before more recently graduating from the renowned creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich.

Originally from the coastal and mountainous region of Meirionnydd in north Wales she now divides her time between Wales and Paris, where she is researching a second novel.


The HALMA grant was made possible by funding of the European Commission.