List Of Writers

DAFYDD, CATRIN

Website: www.catrindafydd.com
Email: catrindafydd@gmail.com

Author, dramatist, poet, political campaigner, performer and musician. Catrin graduated with a degree in Welsh from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She won the Medal Lenyddiaeth (literature prize) at the Urdd Eisteddfod, Cardiff 2005 and has won 2nd and 3rd places in the Crown, Chair and Drama Prize competitions 11 times in five years. She works for the MP Adam Price and Assembly Member Rhodri Glyn Thomas. Her first play, entitled Sua’r Gwynt, was broadcast on Radio Cymru in December 2004 and two other plays were broadcast in 2006. Catrin won an Academi bursary in 2004 to work on her first novel, entitled Pili Pala (Gomer, 2006). Her first novel in English, entitled Random Deaths and Custard (Gomer, 2007), has been nominated for the ‘Books to be talked about 2009’ award by the World Book Day team.

Selected Publications:
Pili Pala (Gomer, 2006)
Random Deaths and Custard (Gomer, 2007)
Y Dyn Handi (Y Lolfa, 2008)
Y Tiwniwr Piano (Gomer, 2009)

Contributed to:
Tu Chwith 23 (editor) (Tu Chwith, 2005)
Crap ar Farddoni (contributor) (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2006)
Aber - Essays on Aberystwyth (contributor) (Gomer, 2008)
Artemis Gwarth by Eoin Colfer (translator) (Gomer, 2008)




Random Deaths and Custard (Gomer, 2007)

Sam Jones is a perfectly ordinary Valleys girl. Except for the random deaths, that is. Random deaths she only just manages to avoid. Narrowly escaping decapitation by the kitchen cupboard, concussed by a fall on the bus, then saved from choking on a fish finger by a complete stranger on her doorstep, she begins to see her life as a succession of near misses. Between her ever expanding list of random deaths and her job at the custard factory, Sam has plenty on her mind. Throw in Nanna’s farting, Anti Peg’s swearing, her Mam’s boyfriend, her dad’s release from prison, and daily life is suddenly pretty eventful for 18 year old Sam…

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