Einir Jones (born 1950 in Anglesey) is a Welsh

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and adaptor of children's books. In 1991, Jones won the Mold National Eisteddfod of Wales. She also worked as a judge at the Monmoutshire and District National

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of Wales, 2016. She was educated at

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and now lives in

Ammanford, Carmarthenshire Ammanford ( cy, Rhydaman) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population of 5,411 at the 2011 census. It is a former coal mining town. The built-up area had a population of 7,945 with the wider urban area even bigger. Acco ...

, with her husband the Rev. John Talfryn Jones, teaching at Amman Valley Comprehensive School.

Works

Her works include ''Daeth Awst Daeth Nos'' (''Night came in August,'' Barddas Publications, 1991), ''Gweld y Garreg Ateb'' (''View the Stone Solution'', Gwynedd Press, 1991) and ''Rhwng Dau'' (''Between Two'', co-written with Edward Jones, Pantycelyn Press, 1998).

References

Living people 1950 births 20th-century Welsh poets 20th-century Welsh women writers 21st-century Welsh people 21st-century Welsh women People from Anglesey Welsh women poets Alumni of Bangor University {{Wales-poet-stub