Robin Llwyd ab Owain
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Robin Llwyd ab Owain (son of poet and writer Owain Owain) won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1991 at Mold for a Welsh poem titled The Girl of our Times. In December 1996 he became the first Welsh writer to publish his poems on the web: Rhedeg ar Wydr (trans: Running on Glass), first published in December 1996.
He lives in Ruthin and has two children. He is a local business man and was mayor of Ruthin 1990 - 1991. His poems have been read on television by actor Rhys Ifans who counts Robin Llwyd as one of Wales' leading poets.
Robin Llwyd has written many well known songs including many which have been sung by Bryn Terfel: 'Brenin y Ser' ('The King of The Stars') and Rhys Meirion 'Pedair Oed', for example.
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