Megan Angharad Hunter

Megan Angharad Hunter (born c. 1998)[1] is a Welsh writer who in 2021 won the Crown at the Urdd National Eisteddfod and the Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year Award.[2]

Early life

Hunter is from Penygroes, Gwynedd. Her father Jerry Hunter is an academic and author, who won the National Eisteddfod of Wales Prose Medal. Her mother is an actress.[3] Hunter went on to study Welsh and Philosophy at Cardiff University.[3]

Writing

Hunter won the literary medal at the 2019 Anglesey Eisteddfod and came close to winning the Crown, the main prose prize, at the Urdd National Eisteddfod in the same year.[3] She was awarded the Literature Wales New Author Scholarship in 2020.[4]

In 2020 she submitted a piece of writing to the Crown competition at the Urdd National Eisteddfod, but the 2020 event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She had to wait until October 2021 for the result when she was announced as the virtual "Eisteddfod T" 2020/21 winner, being presented with the prize at an online ceremony.[3][5] Her work, a piece of prose of more than 4,000 words submitted under the pen name Lina, was on the theme of Mwgwd/Mygydau ('Mask/Masks') and written both in an academic style and partly in the language of a child.[6]

Shortly before her Urdd win, in August 2021 Hunter won the Literature Wales 2021 Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year Award, for her debut novel tu ôl i’r awyr ('behind the sky'). Two days beforehand the novel had been announced as winner of the Welsh-language Fiction Award.[7] The book offered a glimpse into the lives of two young adults, Anest and Deian.[4] In 2025 Firefly Press acquired the rights to publish the book in English, under the name Behind the Sky.[1]

She won the 2024 Tir na n-Og Award in the secondary school age category, for her Welsh-language children's book Astronot yn yr Atig ('Astronaut in the Attic'). The winners were announced at a special ceremony at the 2024 Urdd National Eisteddfod in Meifod.[8]

Personal life

Hunter has moderate hearing loss,[9] but enjoys playing the flute and guitar.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Welsh publisher signs English adaptation of Wales Book of the Year winning 'masterpiece'". Nation.Cymru. 16 October 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Urdd Eisteddfod win crowns "surreal" year for student author". Cardiff University. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Eryl Crump (18 October 2021). "Gwynedd student wins long-awaited Urdd Eisteddfod Crown". Daily Post. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  4. 1 2 "Megan Angharad Hunter yn cipio Prif Wobr Llyfr y Flwyddyn" [Megan Angharad Hunter takes the main Book of the Year award]. Golwg360 (in Welsh). 4 August 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Megan Angharad Hunter yn ennill Coron Eisteddfod yr Urdd" [Megan Angharad Hunter wins the Urdd Eisteddfod Crown]. BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). 18 October 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Megan Angharad Hunter yw enillydd Coron yr Urdd 2020-21" [Megan Angharad Hunter is the Urdd 2020-21 Crown winner]. Golwg360 (in Welsh). 18 October 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  7. ↑ "Megan Angharad Hunter's tu ôl i'r awyr wins the 2021 Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year Award". Literature Wales. 4 August 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "Welsh-language Tir na n-Og Awards winners announced". Nation.Cymru. 29 May 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
  9. ↑ Darren Devine (16 July 2016). "These two young deaf musicians refuse to be held back by hearing loss". Wales Online. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
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