Dafydd Ifans is a contemporary Welsh language

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 novelist and translator, born in Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....

 in Ceredigion

Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county and former kingdom in mid-west Wales. As Cardiganshire , it was created in 1282, and was reconstituted as a county under that name in 1996, reverting to Ceredigion a day later...

, west Wales

Wales

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.

Personal life

Dafydd Ifans was born in Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 in 1949. After finishing in Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth

Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth

Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth is a Welsh language primary school in the university town of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales. It was established as a private school in 1939 by Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and was originally named Ysgol Gymraeg yr Urdd...

 in 1960, between 1960 and 1967 he studied at the Ardwyn Grammar School in Aberystwyth. In 1970 he got his BA-degree at the University of Wales in Bangor

Bangor University

Bangor University is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales-United Kingdom.It was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales...

. In 1972 he got his diploma in palaeography and archive administration, and his MA in 1974.

From 1972 until 1975 he served a research assistant at the Department of Manuscripts and Records in the National Library of Wales

National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...

. Later he became an assistant keeper in the same department, until 2002. In 2002 he became an assistant director and head of the special collections, and in 2005 he served as an assistant director and head of acquisitions in the same library.

Publications

• 1974 - Eira gwyn yn Salmon
• 1977 - Tyred Drosodd - Gohebiaeth Eluned Morgan a Nantlais gyda rhagymadrodd a nodiadau
• 1980 - Ofn
• 1980 - Y Mabinogion (with Rhiannon Ifans)
• 1982 - William Salesbury and The Welsh Law
• 1982 - The Diary of Francis Kilvert April–June 1870 (with Kathleen Hughes)
• 1989 - Dathlwn Glod - Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth 1939-1989
• 1989 - The Diary of Francis Kilvert June–July 1870
• 1992 - Annwyl Kate, Annwyl Saunders - Gohebiaeth 1923-1983 (with Saunders Lewis and Kate Roberts)
• 1994 - Cofrestri Anghydffurfiol Cymru/Nonconformist Registers of Wales
• 1997 - Taith y Pererin i'r teulu (with John Bunyan and Victor Mitchell)
• 1998 - Trysorfa Cenedl - Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
• 1998 - The Nation's Heritage - The National Library of Wales
• 1998 - Y Mabinogion -Hud yr hen chwedlau Celtaidd
• 2004 - Gwladfa Kyffin / Kyffin in Patagonia
• 2007 - Annwyl Kate