Y Trydydd Peth
''Y Trydydd Peth'' (The Third Thing) is a 2009 Welsh-language novel written by Siân Melangell Dafydd Siân Melangell Dafydd (born 28 April 1977) is a Welsh novelist, poet and translator. In 2009 she won the National Eisteddfod Literature Medal for her first novel, '' Y Trydydd Peth'' (The Third Thing, Gomer, 2009). For six years she worked as .... It concerns 90-year old George Owens, a natural swimmer with a deep love of water stemming from childhood, and a wish to understand the third ingredient that binds hydrogen and oxygen to create water. Learning from an ancient law-book that the river Dee is his by right of birth, he decides to assert his claims by swimming all the way down the river to its estuary at Cheshire. References {{Reflist Welsh novels ...
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Siân Melangell Dafydd
Siân Melangell Dafydd (born 28 April 1977) is a Welsh novelist, poet and translator. In 2009 she won the National Eisteddfod Literature Medal for her first novel, '' Y Trydydd Peth'' (The Third Thing, Gomer, 2009). For six years she worked as the co-editor of literary review ''Taliesin and Y Neuadd.'' Since 2001, she practices yoga in order to access greater creativity, directing workshops about yoga and writing across Europe. She teaches Creative Writing at the American University of Paris, and is a course leader for a Master of Research degree in Transnational Creative Writing for Bath Spa University Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. The instit .... She's known for working with foreign-language writers (namely those who write in Indian languages and minority UK and internati ...
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