Personol/About

Mae Jon Gower wedi ysgrifennu dros 40 o lyfrau bellach gan gynnwys Y Storïwr (Llyfr y Flwyddyn yn 2012), Norte, Rebel Rebel a The Story of Wales. The Turning Tide, am Fôr Iwerddon, yw’r llyfr diweddaraf, gyda chyfrol am y bêl droediwr Americanaidd Raymond Chester i ddilyn, ynghyd a nofel, I’w Ddiwedd Oer am yr anturiaethwr Edgar Evans. Daw Jon o Lanelli yn wreiddiol ac mae wedi ymgartrefu bellach gyda’i wraig a’u dwy ferch yng Nghaerdydd.

Jon Gower is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent who has over 40 books to his name. These include The Story of Wales, which accompanied a landmark TV series, the travelogue An Island Called Smith and Y Storïwr which won the Wales Book of the Year. His latest book is The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea. Forthcoming are Raider: The Raymond Chester Story and I’w Ddiwedd Oer, a Welsh language historical novel about polar explorer Edgar Evans.

Ffeithiau sydyn.

Enillydd Llyfr y Flwyddyn a chyn ohebydd y Celfyddydau a’r Cyfryngau BBC Cymru.

Roedd Jon Gower yn ohebydd y Celfyddydau a’r Cyfryngau i BBC Cymru rhwng 2000 a 2006, a chyflwynodd First Hand, rhaglen gelfyddyd ar BBC Radio Wales.

Mae’n awdur llyfrau Cymraeg a Saesneg ym maes teithio a hanes, o’r lleol, sef hanes pentref Pwll i hanes y Wladfa yn Gwalia Patagonia gan lunio nofelau a straeon byrion hefyd.

Yn 2012 enillodd Wobr Llyfr Cymraeg y Flwyddyn am ei nofel ddiweddaraf, Y Storïwr.

Dywedodd Cris Dafis ar raglen Nia Roberts ar BBC Radio Cymru fod ganddo “Lais mor unigryw yn hanes llenyddiaeth Cymraeg.

“Os y’ch chi isie darllen nofelau sy’n wahanol i unrhyw beth arall sydd erioed wedi ei 'sgrifennu yn yr iaith Gymraeg, nofelau Jon Gower yw’r rhai i fynd amdanyn nhw.”

Jon Gower grew up in Pwll, near Llanelli, Wales and studied English at Cambridge University.

A former BBC Wales’ Arts and Media correspondent, Jon has been making documentary programmes for television and radio for over 30 years. He has over 40 books to his name, in both Welsh and English, including a clutch of novels, 5 collections of short stories, histories and travel books.

In 2009, he was awarded a major Creative Wales award to explore the Welsh settlement in Patagonia which resulted in the volume Gwalia Patagonia.

The Story of Wales accompanies a landmark BBC series.

Jon won the Welsh Language Wales Book of the Year Prize in 2012 for his novel Y Storïwr.

He is the books editor of Nation.Cymru.

Jon lives in Cardiff, Wales, with his wife Sarah and two daughters, Elena and Onwy.

“A particularly gifted marauder through space and time is the virtuosic Jon Gower, whose heady combinations of fantasy, travel and touches of postmodernism in texts such as Y Storïwr and Dala’r Llanw ensure that his readers never know what to expect from one work to the next.”

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature
“Remarkable. Lively … Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.”

Times Literary Supplement
“The book equivalent of being hosted by a travelling storyteller around a fire.”

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