Fflur Dafydd is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and musician who works in Welsh and English.

Author of five novels, including The Library Suicides (2023), her own translation of Y Llyfrgell (Y Lolfa, 2009) she is a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA, a former Hay Festival International Fellow, and an alumna of Iowa University’s prestigious International Writing Program. Her most recent novel is The House of Water (Hodder and Staughton, 2025)

She has created around 50 hours of prime time drama for S4C and the BBC iPlayer. She also wrote and co-produced the feature film Y Llyfrgell/The Library Suicides, (BBC Films) based on her own novel, which won numerous awards at the BAFTA Cymru awards and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She has twice been nominated for a BAFTA Cymru for best screenwriter; and her fiction prizes include the Prose Medal (2006), the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize (2009), the Oxfam Hay Festival Emerging Writer Award (2009), and the Welsh Big Read Award (2010).

She is also a singer-songwriter and won the Female Artist of the Year Award in the BBC Radio Cymru awards in 2010.

She is a graduate of UEA’s creative writing MA, and was also selected as the first ever Welsh participant for Iowa University’s world renowned International Writing Program. Her original audio drama series Mothercover was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2025 and she is also part of the writing team of ITV's Trigger Point, which will air in Autumn 2025

Her TV series ‘Yr Amgueddfa’ (The Museum), a 6 part thriller, appeared on S4C in 2021, and has been sold to Britbox in USA and Canada.

In 2009, she was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and participated in a Sealines residency in Helsinki in 2007.

Fflur Dafydd was one of five authors included in the literary magazine Words Without Borders' Welsh-language issue. You can read a chapter of The Library Suicides, a translation of Y Llyfrgell, translated into English by the author herself, here.