Rhiannon Ifans, FLSW was born on 1954 and is a Welsh academic specialising in English, Medieval and Welsh literature.
12 Facts About Rhiannon Ifans
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Rhiannon Ifans was an Anthony Dyson Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, in University of Wales Trinity St David.
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Rhiannon Ifans twice won a Tir na-n-Og prize for her work and won the literary medal competition at the Welsh Eisteddfod, for her 2019 debut novel, Ingrid, which was chosen for the Welsh Literature Exchange Bookshelf.
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In 2020, Ifans was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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Rhiannon Ifans was a Dyson Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in University of Wales Trinity St David.
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Rhiannon Ifans has published formal monographs and popular versions for adults and young people sharing her knowledge of the Welsh and Celtic literature.
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Rhiannon Ifans wrote a version of the tales of the first Prince of Wales, Owen Glendower, and in Welsh, a selection of heroic and other traditional tales from Celtic countries, published 1999, Chwedlau o'r gwledydd Celtaidd which won the Welsh Tir na-n-Og prize,; this was translated into English in 2014.
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Rhiannon Ifans was elected to the Learned Society of Wales in 2020.
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Rhiannon Ifans was born in 1954, and spent her childhood at Carreg Wian farm in Llanidan, Anglesey, and was educated at Gaerwen Primary School and Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni.
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Rhiannon Ifans studied Welsh language and literature at the University of Aberystwyth.
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Rhiannon Ifans married Dafydd Ifans and has collaborated with him in some of her work.
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Rhiannon Ifans is retired and lives in Penrhyn-coch and now has grandchildren in Cardiff.