Francesca Rhydderch

Francesca Rhydderch in 2014

Francesca Rhydderch (born 10 February 1969 in Aberystwyth, Wales) is a Welsh novelist and academic. In 2013, her debut novel, The Rice Paper Diaries, was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2014 for Fiction.[1] Her short stories have been published in anthologies and magazines and broadcast on Radio 4 and Radio Wales. [2]

Literary Career

Francesca received a BA in Modern Languages from Newnham College, Cambridge, and a PhD in English from Aberystwyth University.[3] She worked as the Editorial Assistant at Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, and became Associate Editor of the magazine in 1999.[4] As the recipient of a BBC/Ty Newydd bursary in 2010, she attended the creative writing course led by BBC Executive Producer Kate McAll and novelist Patricia Duncker.[4] She was appointed Editor of New Welsh Review in 2002.[5] In 2015, she and Penny Thomas edited the New Welsh Short Stories.[6]

Francesca has been a Creative Writing Associate Professor at Swansea University since 2015.[7]

Awards

The Rice Paper Diaries was longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2014 for Fiction. [1]

The Taxidermist’s Daughter was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2014. [8]

The Welsh play, Cyfaill, was shortlisted for the Theatre Critics Wales Best Playwright Award 2014.[9]

In July of 2015, Professor Matthew Francis from the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University presented Dr Rhydderch as Fellow. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Francesca Rhydderch - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  2. ↑ "www.gwales.com - 9781781720516, Rice Paper Diaries, The". www.gwales.com. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. ↑ Price, Karen (2014-09-21). "Welsh writer Francesa Rhydderch bids for major award". walesonline. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  4. 1 2 "BBC National Short Story Award - The BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist 2014 - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  5. ↑ "New Welsh Review Archive". archiveswales.llgc.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  6. ↑ "Francesca Rhydderch and Tyler Keevil talk to Penny Thomas, Hay Festival Winter Weekend | Seren Books". www.serenbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  7. ↑ "Dr Francesca Rhydderch". www.swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  8. 1 2 "Dr Francesca Rhydderch honoured as Fellow - Aberystwyth University". www.aber.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  9. ↑ "Francesca Rhydderch | Seren Books". www.serenbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
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