Lleucu Roberts

Lleucu Roberts (born 27 September 1964) is a Welsh author.

Lleucu Roberts
Born	(1964-09-27) 27 September 1964 (age 60) Aberystwyth, Wales
Language	Welsh and English
Education	Aberystwyth University
Genre	Children's literature
Notable works	Stuff Guto S Thomas Well, Little Wales! Some Kind of Insult
Notable awards	Tir na n-Og Award (2011)

Biography

Born in Aberystwyth, she grew up in Ceredigion's Bow Street, taking courses at Rhydypennau Primary School, Penweddig Comprehensive School, and Aberystwyth University.

In 2011 she won a Tir na n-Og Award for her novel Stuff Guto S Thomas.^[1] She went on to win the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize and the Prose Medal at the Carmarthenshire National Eisteddfod 2014, becoming the first person to win the two main prose prizes in the same year.^[2][3] Roberts also writes radio and television scripts.^[4]

Roberts won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize for a second time, at the 2021 Eisteddfod AmGen, for her novel Hannah-Jane.^[5]

Her works include Songs of Peace (1991), Turning a Deaf Ear (2005), Dear Little Spot (2008),^[6] The Girl on the Road (2009), Stuff- Guto S. Tomos (2010), Well, Little Wales! (2011) and Some Kind of Insult (2012). She currently lives in Rhostryfan, Gwynedd, with her husband and two daughters and sons.^[7][8]