Robin Llywelyn is a Welsh novelist, writing in both Welsh

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...

 and English. His works include From Empty Harbour to White Ocean, winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal. He is also the managing director of Portmeirion Ltd which runs the Italianate village of Portmerion built by his grandfather Sir Clough Williams-Ellis

Clough Williams-Ellis

Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC was an English-born Welsh architect known chiefly as creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.-Origins, education and early career:...

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Llywelyn was educated at University of Wales, Aberystwyth

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the university had over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The university was founded in 1872 as...

, studying Welsh and Irish. Llwelyn 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).