Robin Llywelyn (born 24 November 1958) is a Welsh novelist, writing in both Welsh and English. His works include ''From Empty Harbour to White Ocean'', winner of the

National Eisteddfod The National Eisteddfod of Wales ( Welsh: ') is the largest of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales. Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. Competito ...

Prose Medal. He is also the managing director of Portmeirion Ltd which runs the

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

village of

Portmeirion Portmeirion (; ) is a folly* * * tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Dwyryd in the community (Wales), community of Penrhyndeudraeth, from Porthmadog and from Minffordd railway station. Portmeirion was d ...

built by his grandfather Sir

Clough Williams-Ellis Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Military Cross, MC (28 May 1883 – 9 April 1978) was a Welsh architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate architecture, Italianate village of Portmeirion in North ...

. Llywelyn was born in

Llanfrothen Llanfrothen () is a hamlet and Community (Wales), community in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, between the towns of Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog and is 108.1 miles (174.0 km) from Cardiff. In 2011 the population of Llanfrothen was 437 wi ...

and was educated at

University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University () is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across three academic facul ...

, where he studied Welsh and Irish. Llywelyn has written three novels in Welsh; ''Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn'' (1992), which won the 1992 National Eisteddfod of Wales prose medal and the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award; ''O'r Harbwr Gwag i'r Cefnfor Gwyn'' (1994), winner of the 1994 Eisteddfod of Wales Prose Medal and BBC Writer of the Year Award; and ''Un Diwrnod yn yr Eisteddfod'' (2004).

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Living people 1958 births Welsh writers 21st-century Welsh novelists {{Wales-writer-stub