Dilys Cadwaladr

Dilys Cadwaladr (19 March 1902 – January 1979[1]) was a Welsh-language poet and fiction writer.

First female crowned bard

Dilys Cadwaladr is notable for being the first woman ever to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. This she achieved in 1953 at Rhyl.[2]

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 2017.[3]

Personal life

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 the schoolteacher to the island's children.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Eigra Lewis Roberts, Merch yr oriau mawr. Tŷ ar y Graig, 1981 (Welsh language)
  2. ↑ "Some facts and figures regarding Gorsedd ceremonies". National Museum Wales. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
  3. ↑ Honno Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Enlli and the Arts". Bardsey Island Trust. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Dewi Emrys and his lost chair". S4C. 25 July 2014.


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