Eigra Lewis Roberts
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Eigra Lewis Roberts | |
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| Born | 7 August 1939 Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales |
| Died | 5 March 2026 (aged 86) Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales |
| Language | Welsh |
| Alma mater | University College of North Wales |
| Subject | Post-War women in Wales |
| Notable awards | Multiple awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales |
| Spouse | Llew |
| Children | 3 |
Eigra Lewis Roberts (7 August 1939 – 5 March 2026) was a Welsh-language author, whose work included about 30 plays, short stories, children's books and novels.[1] She won several awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[2]
Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Roberts attended Ffestiniog County School, along with her fellow author John Rowlands and the poet Gwyn Thomas.[2][3] Having graduated from University College of North Wales in Bangor,[2] she taught in Holyhead and Llanrwst and lived in Dolwyddelan.[1][4] Roberts had an honorary MA from the University of Wales.[4][5]
Career
Aged 20, Roberts won the open novel prize at the 1959 Caernarfon National Eisteddfod of Wales.[1][2] In the 1960s and 1970s she was known for writing about the lives and dissatisfaction of Welsh women in Post-war Britain, a topic little covered by Welsh authors at the time.[8][9][10] In the 1980s, she was the screenwriter adapting her novel Mis o Fehefin for the Welsh television programme Minafon.[2][4]
In 2006, Roberts wrote her first novel in English, the semi-autobiographical Return Ticket.[5] That year she won the Crown in the Swansea National Eisteddfod for a collection of poems about Sylvia Plath.[1][2][4] In 2013, her work Parlwr Bach was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.[11]
