Manon Steffan Ros
Manon Steffan Ros is a Welsh novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, and she is half of the Welsh folk duo Blodau Gwylltion. She has written more than forty books in her native Welsh language. Her novel Llyfr Glas Nebo (which translates to The Blue Book of Nebo) won the Welsh Book of the Year in 2019, as well as the People’s Choice Award and the prose medal at the 2018 National Eisteddfod. Her novels for children and young adults have won the Tir Na N’Og prize five times, and her novels Llyfr Glas Nebo and Blasu, as well as her play Two Faces/Dau Wyneb are on the Welsh curriculum for teaching in schools. Originally from Rhiwlas, a village in the mountains of north Wales, she now lives in Tywyn, a town by the ocean, with her family. Manon loves Liverpool Football Club, hiking, and cake.
