Mae’n bleser gan Wales PEN Cymru gyhoeddi mai enillwyr cyntaf Gwobr Emyr Humphreys yw Mererid Hopwood a Mark S Redfern.
Daw’r cyhoeddiad ar ddiwrnod pen-blwydd yr awdur yn 101 mlwydd oed. Cystadleuaeth yw hon sy’n gwobrwyo’r ysgrif neu’r erthygl fwyaf beiddgar ac arloesol am Gymru, yn Gymraeg ac yn Saesneg, a gyhoeddwyd yn ystod 2019, sef canmlwyddiant Emyr Humphreys. Dywedodd Menna Elfyn, Llywydd PEN Cymru:
Enwebwyd y darnau gan aelodau PEN Cymru, a dewiswyd yr enillwyr o blith y rhestr hir gan y beirniaid Siân Northey, Eluned Gramich a’r Athro Daniel Williams. Gwobrwyir Mererid Hopwood am ei herthygl ‘Doethineb Iaith’, a gyhoeddwyd yn O’r Pedwar Gwynt fis Awst 2019. Dywed Siân Northey yn ei beirniadaeth:
Mae Mererid Hopwood wedi bod yn dysgu am ran helaeth o’r ddeng mlynedd ar hugain diwethaf ym maes iaith a llenyddiaeth, a bellach mae hi’n Athro Ieithoedd a’r Cwricwlwm Cymreig ym Mhrifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant. Gwobrwyir Mark S Redfern am ei ysgrif ‘When Vice came to Swansea’, a gyhoeddwyd yn Planet, Gaeaf 2019. Mae’r ysgrif yn disgrifio ac yn beirniadu fideo ddogfen a wnaethpwyd gan Vice ac a ddaeth yn boblogaeth ar YouTube. Dywed Siân Northey yn ei beirniadaeth:
Ganwyd Mark S Redfern, newyddiadurwr ymchwiliol addawol, yn Swindon a’i fagu yn Llandrindod, lle y mae’n byw ar hyn o bryd. Mae ganddo hanner radd newyddiaduraeth o Brifysgol Goldsmiths, a bu’n gweithio mewn sawl swydd dros dro. Enillodd hefyd Gystadleuaeth Traethawd Awduron Ifanc 2019 cylchgrawn Planet gyda’r ysgrif hon. Mae’n ysgrifennu i wefan newyddion Cymreig lawr gwlad, voice.wales. Cyflwynir gwobr o £500 yr un i’r ddau enillydd a chynhelir digwyddiad ar-lein ddiwedd y mis, yng nghwmni’r enillwyr a’r beirniaid, lle bydd cyfle i glywed darlleniad o’r darnau buddugol. Trefnwyd y gystadleuaeth gan Wales PEN Cymru, drwy nawdd y Gymdeithas Ddysgedig yng Nghymru, Cronfa Goffa Saunders Lewis, HMM Foundation, a nifer o gyfranwyr unigol. |
Wales PEN Cymru are pleased to announce that the inaugural prize winners of the Emyr Humphreys Award are Mererid Hopwood and Mark S Redfern.
The announcement comes on the author’s 101st birthday. The award is given to the most daring and innovative writing about Wales, in Welsh and in English, published during 2019 – Emyr Humphrey’s centenary. Menna Elfyn, Wales PEN Cymru President, said:
The pieces were nominated by PEN Cymru members, and the winners was selected from the long list by the adjudicators Siân Northey, Eluned Gramich and Professor Daniel Williams. Mererid Hopwood is awarded for her essay ‘Doethineb Iaith’ (‘Wisdom of Language’), published in the Summer 2019 issue of O’r Pedwar Gwynt. Siân Northey says in her adjudication:
Mererid Hopwood has been teaching for most of the last thirty years in the field of language and literature. She is now Professor of Languages and Welsh Curriculum at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Mark S Redfern is awarded for his essay ‘When Vice came to Swansea’, published in Planet, Winter 2019. The essay describes, and criticises, a documentary video made by Vice which became a population on YouTube. In her adjudication, Siân Northey says:
Mark S Redfern, a rising talent as an investigative journalist, was born in Swindon and raised in Llandrindod Wells, which is where he currently resides. He has one-half of a journalism BA from Goldsmiths University, and has worked several transient jobs. He also won Planet magazine’s 2019 Young Writers’ Essay Competition with this essay. He writes for the grassroots Welsh news website voice.wales. Both winners are awarded £500 each, and an online event will be held at the end of the month, with the winners and adjudicators, where there will be an opportunity to hear a reading of the winning pieces. The prize is organised by Wales PEN Cymru, with support from the Learned Society of Wales, Saunders Lewis Memorial Fund, HMM Foundation, and a number of individuals.
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