Manon Steffan Ros
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Manon Steffan Ros (born 19 January 1983) is a Welsh novelist, playwright, games author, and scriptwriter. She is the author of over twenty children's books and three novels for adults, all in Welsh. Her award-winning novel Blasu has been translated (by the author) into English, under the title of The Seasoning.
Biography
Ros was born in Rhiwlas to musician Steve Eaves. She attended Ysgol Rhiwlas and Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in Bethesda. Her son is a local amateur football player. She lives in Tywyn.
She is twice winner of the Drama Medal for playwrights at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and won the Prose Medal in 2018. In June 2017, she won the prestigious Tir na n-Og Award for the third time, in the primary school category, presented by the Welsh Books Council to honour the year's best Welsh-language book.
She won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod 2018, for her work Llyfr Glas Nebo, written under her nom de plume Aleloia.
Awards
- 2005 and 2006 National Eisteddfod's Drama Medal;
- 2010, 2012, 2017 and 2019 Welsh-language Tir na n-Og Award;
- 2018 Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Llyfr Glas Nebo.
