Meg Ann Elis (born 26 October 1950), also known as Marged Dafydd or Margaret Dafydd, is a Welsh writer, translator and language activist. She stood unsuccessfully as a

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candidate for the Delyn constituency in the

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election in 1999 and again in

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Life and work

Meg Elis was born into a Welsh-speaking family in

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, the daughter of politician T. I. Ellis and his wife,

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, and studied at Bangor University. She was a director of the translation company NEWID ("CHANGE"), and has worked as a Welsh/English translator, journalist and radio producer. During the 1980s, she was a member of the protest group at the

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. In 1985, her novel, ''Cyn Daw'r Gaeaf'' won the Prose Medal, one of the major prizes at the

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in Rhyl. Her other works included ''Carchar'' and ''I'r Gad'', both published by

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. Her novels have been cited as good examples of the more controversial themes dealt with by a younger generation of Welsh-language writers in the 1980s.

References

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