Siân James

Siân James (born 1932) is a Welsh novelist who writes in English.

James was born near Llandysul in Carmarthenshire, and attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She is a Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glamorgan.

She is a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. She has twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, and her third novel, A Small Country, has come to be regarded as a classic of Anglo-Welsh literature. In 2006, A Small Country was made into a Welsh-language TV series (Calon Gaeth), which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.

In 1958 she married the actor, Emrys James. He died in 1989.

• One Afternoon (1975)
• Yesterday (1978)
• A Small Country (1979)
• Another Beginning (1979)
• Dragons and Roses (1983)
• A Dangerous Time (1984)
• Love and War (1994)
• Storm at Arberth (1994)
• Not Singing Exactly (collected short stories, 1996)
• Two Loves (1997)
• The Sky Over Wales (memoir, 1997)
• Summer Storm (1998)
• Second Chance (2000)
• Outside Paradise (short stories, 2001)
• Summer Shadows (2004)
• Return to Hendre Ddu (2009)