EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU WRECSAM 2025 Cosmic.... time-travelling novel wins prestigious prize

A FICTIONAL journey through time spanning nearly two centuries won its author a prestigious prize at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.

- By ERYL CRUMP

Peredur Glyn, from Menai Bridge, Anglesey is the winner of this year's Daniel Owen Memorial Prize, presented to him on the Pavilion stage, for his novel Anfarwol.

The task of the 14 writers who entered was to create a novel with a strong storyline of no less than 50,000 words. The prize is the Daniel Owen Memorial Medal and the published novel.

Mr Glyn, a Reader in Linguistics and Bilingualism at the School of Language, Culture and the Arts at Bangor University, is the author of two novels.

One of them, Pumed Gainc y Mabinogi, was shortlisted for Welsh Book of the Year 2023.

He writes within the genre of cosmic horror, where characters come to realise that supernatural powers exist beyond their imagination, and that humanity's place in the universe is insignificant and fleeting in the face of such horrors.

He wrote Galwad Cthulhu a Straeon Arswyd Eraill, the first Welsh-language translation of the influential American author H. P. Lovecraft's work.