Lleucu Roberts (born 27 September 1964) is a

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author.

Biography

Born in

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, she grew up in

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's Bow Street, taking courses at Rhydypennau Primary School, Penweddig Comprehensive School, and

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. In 2011 she won a Tir na n-Og Award for her novel ''Stuff Guto S Thomas''. 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. Roberts also writes radio and television scripts. Her works include ''Songs of Peace'' (1991), ''Turning a Deaf Ear'' (2005), ''Dear Little Spot'' (2008), ''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,

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, with her husband and two daughters and sons.

References

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