A TYWYN author and musician has scooped the Prose Medal at this year’s National Eisteddfod.

Manon Steffan Ros (right) has been named the winner of the Prose Medal on the ‘llwyfan’ in Cardiff on Wednesday, in a competition which attracted fourteen competitors.

This year’s title was ‘Ynni’ (Energy) and the task was to compose a volume of creative prose of no more than 40,000 words.

The adjudicators were Sonia Edwards, Menna Baines and Manon Rhys.

The medal and the financial prize of £750 were presented by Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr, Cardiff.

Delivering the adjudication from the stage, last year’s Prose Medal winner, Sonia Edwards, said: “I’d like to thank the writers for entrusting their work to us. In Manon’s words, ‘Achieving a task like this calls for commitment, stamina and perseverance.’ And I have to agree with Menna that the ‘Energy’ theme does not lend itself well to creativity.”

Manon won the Drama Medal in the 2005 and 2006 National Eisteddfod, and this inspired her to start writing in earnest.

Manon has written a number of novels and won the Tir Na n-Og Prize for children’s literature three times.

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