Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis is a Welsh novelist. She has won Wales Book of the Year twice for her literary fiction and the Tir na n-Og Award for best children’s fiction in 2004 and 2015 . Her novel Martha, Jac A Sianco was adapted for film and won 6 Welsh BAFTAS and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. She is on the Welsh curriculum and is a successful screenwriter (working on BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden). This year she has published three books. Drift (Penguin Doubleday), Seed (Macmillan) and The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons (Penguin, Puffin) Drift is Waterstones Wales Book of the Year 2022. Seed has been nominated for the Carniegie medal 2023. She enjoys keeping bees and silversmithing and lives with an assortment of animals, children and farmers on a hill farm near Aberystwyth in Wales.