Alys Conran writes novels, short stories, poetry, creative essays and literary translations. Her first novel Pigeon (Parthian Books, 2016) was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and won Wales Book of the Year – for which her second novel, Dignity (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019) was also shortlisted. She was Hay Festival International Fellow for 2019-20, appearing at festivals worldwide, and was on the National Centre for Writing & British Council's International Literature Showcase 2020, named as one of 'ten writers who shape our future’. Her fiction has been dramatised on radio (Radio 4, Radio 3, Radio Cymru) has been animated, been made into a nationally touring stage production, and is currently in development as a film. Pigeon is also now on the GCSE English Syllabus (WJEC). She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bangor.
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