List Of Writers

ISLWYN, ALED

Gwâl Eirth, 31 Clodien Avenue, Cardiff CF14 3NL
Telephone: 02920 621773

Writer, translator, editor. Aled Islwyn was born in Port Talbot in 1953. He moved around Wales during his childhood and graduated in Welsh at St. David’s College, Lampeter. Aled currently works as Press Officer with S4C. He has published one volume of verse, Dyddiau Gerwyn (’The Days of Gerwyn’) (1977), but is best known as a Welsh novelist. His fiction has been characterised by an emphasis on emotional concerns underlain by a sharp, lyrical intensity. He explores the interplay between individual and society, focusing on the psychology of identity and sexuality with great intensity and lyricism. 

Aled won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the National Eisteddfod in 1980 for Sarah Arall (’Another Sarah’) (Dref Wen, 1982), and won again in 1985. His collection of short stories, Unigolion Unigeddau (Gomer, 1994) won the 1995 Wales Book of the Year award. Out with It (Parthian, 2008) is his first collection of short stories in English.

Selected Publications:
Dyddiau Gerwyn (1977)
Lleuwen (Llyfrau’r Faner, 1977)
Ceri (1979)
Sarah Arall (Dref Wen, 1982)
Cadw’r Chwedlau’n Fyw (Dref Wen, 1984)
Pedolau Dros y Crud (Gomer, 1987)
Os Marw Hon (Gomer, 1990)
Unigolion, Unigeddau (Gomer, 1994)
Llosgi Gwern (Gomer, 1996)
Am fod Seth yn Angel (Gomer, 2001)
I Lawr Ymhlith Y Werin (Gomer, 2002)
Out with It (Parthian, 2008)

Contributed to:
A sydd am Afal (editor) (Annwn, 1989)
A White Afternoon: Parthian Anthology of Welsh Short Stories (contributor) (Parthian, 2003)
Sarah Eile (translation) (Clo Iar–Chonnachta Teo, 2005)