Manon Steffan Ros

Biography Ros was born in Rhiwlas to musician Steve Eaves. She attended Ysgol Rhiwlas and Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in Bethesda. The novel won three Wales Book of the Year awards the following year (the Fiction category, People's Choice Award, and the overall Welsh-language award), and was adapted into a touring theatre production by Frân Wen in 2020. It has been translated into Arabic, Polish, Catalan, French and English.

In 2023, Ros' own English translation of the novel, The Blue Book of Nebo, became the first novel in translation to win the prestigious Yoto Carnegie Medal for Fiction in the 87-year history of the award. The novel is told in dual narrative by a boy and his mother navigating a post-apocalyptic world and depicts Welsh identity and culture.

Awards 2005 and 2006 National Eisteddfod's Drama Medal; 2010, 2012, 2017 and 2019 Welsh-language Tir na n-Og Award; 2018 Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Llyfr Glas Nebo. 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for The Blue Book of Nebo, her English translation of Llyfr Glas Nebo. Rhifau Coll, Cyfres Cymeriadau Difyr (Canolfan Peniarth, 2018) Dyblu, Cyfres Cymeriadau Difyr (Canolfan Peniarth, 2018) Odrifau ac Eilrifau, Cyfres Cymeriadau Difyr (Canolfan Peniarth, 2018) Rhifo 'Nôl ac Ymlaen, Cyfres Cymeriadau Difyr (Canolfan Peniarth, 2018)