Alys Conran publishes novels, short stories, poetry, creative essays and literary translations. Her first novel Pigeon (Parthian Books, 2016) is now on the GCSE English syllabus (WJEC). It wonWales Book of the Year  - for which her second novel, Dignity (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019) was also shortlisted - and also won the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award, The Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and was shortlisted forThe International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been placed in the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Bath Short Story Award. She was Hay Festival International Fellow for 2019-20, appearing at Hay Festivals worldwide, and was on the National Centre for Writing/British Council's International Literature Showcase 2020, and named by Owen Sheers in The Guardian as one of 'Ten Writers who Shape Our Future'. Her work has been dramatised on Radio 4. Pigeon was made into an acclaimed stage play which toured all major Welsh theatres, and is currently in development as a film. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Bangor, and is a regular creative facilitator and teacher for other organisations nationally and internationally. Originally from North Wales, she spent several years in Edinburgh and Barcelona before returning home. She speaks and writes in English and Welsh as first languages, and also speaks Catalan and Spanish.

She is represented by Jenny Hewson​
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