Dilys Cadwaladr Explained

Dilys Cadwaladr (19 March 1902 – January 1979^[1]) was a Welsh-language poet and fiction writer. Her work also gained readers in English translation.

First female crowned bard

Dilys Cadwaladr is notable for being the first woman to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. This she achieved in 1953 at Rhyl.^{[2] [3]}

Her story "The Foolish Maid" appears in English translation in the collection My Heart on My Sleeve (Honno Welsh Women's Press, Aberystwyth, 2013), which remained in print in 2020.^[4] Earlier, her story "The Divorce" had appeared in English in 1928 in the periodical The Welsh Outlook".^[5]

Personal life

Cadwaladr had a close relationship with the elderly poet Dewi Emrys (1881–1952), by whom she had a daughter in 1930. Dilys Cadwaladr lived on Bardsey Island for several years in the 1940s, as a farmer and as the schoolteacher to the island's children.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Eigra Lewis Roberts, Merch yr oriau mawr. Tŷ ar y Graig, 1981 (Welsh language).
2. Web site: Some facts and figures regarding Gorsedd ceremonies . National Museum Wales . https://web.archive.org/web/20171107165809/https://museum.wales/957/?display_mode=text . 7 November 2017.
3. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/19253 A photograph of the event. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
4. https://www.honno.co.uk/?s=My+heart+on+my+sleeve&search=Search Retrieved 19 January 2020.
5. https://www.iberlibro.com/primera-edicion/Welsh-Outlook-Monthly-Journal-National-Social/20280970750/bd Vol. 15, No. 5, 1928. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
6. Web site: Enlli and the Arts . Bardsey Island Trust . 18 September 2016.
7. Web site: Dewi Emrys and his lost chair . . 25 July 2014.