About Alys Conran
Born 1980. Alys Conran is a British writer.
Alys Conran is a Welsh writer. Her debut novel Pigeon won the Wales Book of the Year in 2017.
Early life Alys Conran was born in north-west Wales, and is the daughter of the poet and translator Tony Conran. She completed an MA in English literature at the University of Edinburgh in 2004 and an MA in creative writing at the University of Manchester in 2012. It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Author's Choice First Novel Award.
In 2018, Conran's second novel Dignity was picked up by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and published in April 2019. Dignity was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award in 2020.
, she is a senior lecturer in creative writing at Bangor University.
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