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Menna Elfyn
Welsh poet and activist, born 1952
Menna Elfyn FRSL | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Genre | poetry |
Menna ElfynFRSL, FLSW (born 1952) is a Welsh poet, playwright, columnist, and editor who writes in Welsh. She has been widely commended and translated. She was imprisoned for her campaigning as a Welsh-language activist.[1]
Background
During the 1970s and 1980s, Menna Elfyn was a member and sometime official of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg. She was twice imprisoned for acts of civil disobedience.[2] She described the ordeal of being forced to speak in the English language to her parents when they visited her in prison.[1]
Elfyn has published ten volumes of poetry and a dozen more of children's books and anthologies. She has also written eight plays for the stage, six radio plays for the BBC, and two plays and several documentaries for television. She co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Biography channel ghost kit!