Menna Elfyn has published thirteen collections of poetry, children’s novels, libretti for UK and US composers as well as plays for television and radio. Her most recent collection in Welsh is Merch Perygl from Gomer Press in 2011 and her bilingual volume Murmur was published by Bloodaxe Books, in autumn 2012. This volume was selected by Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, the first ever book of Welsh poetry in English translation to be chosen. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages for which she received an International Foreign Poetry Prize in 2009 in Sardinia. A columnist with the ‘Western Mail’ since 1994 , she is also Director of Creative Writing at University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. She was made Poet Laureate for the Children of Wales in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Evelyn Encelot Europe Poetry prize for women poets.
Ganed Menna Elfyn yng Nghwm Tawe ond treuliodd y rhan helaethaf o’i bywyd yn Nyfed. Cafodd radd yn y Gymraeg ac yna Ddoethuriaeth o Brifysgol Cymru, Y Drindod Dewi Sant lle y mae’n Gyfarwyddwr Ysgrifennu Creadigol. Cyhoeddodd ddwsin o lyfrau o farddoniaeth, hefyd nofelau i blant, libreti at gyfer cyfansoddwyr yng Nghymru ac yn yr Unol Daleithiau yn ogystal ag ysgrifennu dramâu ar gyfer radio a theledu. Ei chyfrolau diweddaraf yw Merch Perygl ( Gomer, 2011) a Murmur ( Bloodaxe Books, 2012) a chafodd y gyfrol ddwyieithog ei dewis gan Gymdeithas Lyfrau ar Farddoniaeth gan ennill cymeradwyaeth a chlod ar gyfer 2012. Mae ei gwaith wedi ei gyfieithu i ddeunaw o ieithoedd a derbyniodd Wobr Ryngwladol yn 2009 am y gwaith hwnnw. Mae’n golofnydd gyda’r ‘Western Mail’ er 1994 ac wedi cyd-weithio gyda nifer o artistiaid yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.
