| Eigra Lewis Roberts | |
| Birth Date: | 1939 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales |
| Language: | Welsh |
| Alma Mater: | University College of North Wales |
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| Subject: | Post-War women in Wales |
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| Spouse: | Llew |
| Children: | 3 |
| Awards: | Multiple awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales |
Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 7 August 1939) is a Welsh-language author of about 30 plays, short stories, children's books and novels.[1] She has won several awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[2]
Born in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Roberts attended Ffestiniog County School, along with her fellow author John Rowlands and the poet Gwyn Thomas.[2] [3] Having graduated from University College of North Wales in Bangor,[2] she taught in Holyhead and Llanrwst and now lives in Dolwyddelan.[1] [4] Roberts has an honorary MA from the University of Wales.[4] [5]
Aged 20, Roberts won the open novel prize at the 1959 Caernarfon National Eisteddfod of Wales.[1] [2] In the 1960s and 1970s she was known for writing about the lives and dissatisfaction of Welsh women in Post-war Britain, a topic little covered Welsh authors at the time.[6] [7] [8] In the 1980s, she was the screenwriter adapting her novel Mis o Fehefin for the Welsh television programme Minafon.[2] [4]
In 2006, Roberts wrote her first novel in English, the semi-autobiographical Return Ticket.[5] That year she won the Crown in the Swansea National Eisteddfod for a collection of poems about Sylvia Plath.[1] [2] [4] In 2013, her work Welsh: Parlwr Bach was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.[9]