Dilys Cadwaladr
Dilys Cadwaladr (19 March 1902 – January 1979[1]) was a Welsh-language poet and fiction writer. Her work also gained readers in English translation.
First female crowned bard
[edit]Dilys Cadwaladr is notable for being the first woman to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. This she achieved in 1953 at Rhyl.[2][3]
Her story "The Foolish Maid" appears in English translation in the collection My Heart on My Sleeve (Honno Welsh Women's Press, Aberystwyth, 2013), which remained in print in 2020.[4] Earlier, her story "The Divorce" had appeared in English in 1928 in the periodical "The Welsh Outlook".[5]
Personal life
[edit]Cadwaladr had a close relationship with the elderly poet Dewi Emrys (1881–1952), by whom she had a daughter in 1930. Dilys Cadwaladr lived on Bardsey Island for several years in the 1940s, as a farmer and as the schoolteacher to the island's children.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Eigra Lewis Roberts, Merch yr oriau mawr. Tŷ ar y Graig, 1981 (Welsh language).
- ^ "Some facts and figures regarding Gorsedd ceremonies". National Museum Wales. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
- ^ A photograph of the event. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ Vol. 15, No. 5, 1928. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ "Enlli and the Arts". Bardsey Island Trust. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
- ^ "Dewi Emrys and his lost chair". S4C. 25 July 2014.
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