Emyr Lewis

Tomos Emyr Lewis (born 8 October 1957) is a Welsh poet and academic. He has won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and has won the Chair on two separate occasions. A lawyer by profession, Lewis was appointed Head of the Department of Law & Criminology at Aberystwyth University in 2019.

Lewis was born in London but brought up in Cardiff, a Welsh speaker and later a prominent campaigner for the strengthening of the position of the Welsh language in legislation. Between his two wins, in 1998, he won the Crown for the first and only time.

From 2001 to 2013, he was the UK Representative on COMEX, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts under the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (2001-2013). Publications Chwarae Mig (1996) Twt Lol (2019)