Siân Melangell Dafydd (born 28 April 1977) is a

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novelist, poet and translator. In 2009 she won the

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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

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, and is a course leader for a Master of Research degree in Transnational Creative Writing for

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. She's known for working with foreign-language writers (namely those who write in Indian languages and minority UK and international languages), such as Malayalam poet Anita Thampi, with whom she wrote a three-language poetry compilation, ''Dŵr Arall'' (''Different Water)''. She often works together with other artists' works, such as ''Aomori'' (a project by Sioned Huws) and ''Ancestral Houses: The Lost Mansions of Wales'' (co-written with Paul White the artist and Damian Walford Davies the poet).

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