Dorothy Bonarjee: The Bard of Aberystwyth
13.04.23, 5.00pm
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru ac ar-lein | The National Library of Wales and online
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Creodd Dorothy Bonarjee gynnwrf pryd dyfarnwyd y gadair Farddol iddi’n Eisteddfod Coleg Prifysgol Cymru, yn Aberystwyth yn 1914. Roedd hi’n 19 oed, a’r fenyw gyntaf, yn ogystal â’r myfyriwr cyntaf o dramor i ennill Eisteddfod y Coleg. Dros y blynyddoedd a ddilynodd, cyfrannodd Bonarjee farddoniaeth uchel ei barch i Welsh Outlook a The Dragon. Daliodd ei barddoniaeth naws y cyfnod, ac yn benodol effaith creulon y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf.
Ymunwch â Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Honno a’r Bywgraffiadur Cymreig er mwyn lansio’r casgliad cyhoeddedig cyntaf erioed o’i cherddi, The Hindu Bard: the poems of Dorothy Bonarjee, a gyhoeddir gan Honno. Bydd golygyddion y casgliad, Mohini Gupta ac Andrew Whitehead, yn rhoi asesiad arbenigol o waith a bywyd rhyfeddol Bonarjee, a bydd yn sgwrsio gyda Dr Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones a Dr Faaeza Jasdanwalla-Williams yn y lansiad.
Digwyddiad trwy gyfrwng y Saesneg.
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Dorothy Bonarjee created a sensation when she won the bardic Chair at the University College of Wales’s Eisteddfod, in Aberystwyth, in 1914. She was 19, and the first woman as well as the first overseas student to win the college Eisteddfod. Over the next few years, Bonarjee contributed well-regarded poetry to Welsh Outlook and The Dragon. Her verse caught the mood of the time, and particularly the brutal impact of the First World War.
Please join The National Library of Wales, Honno and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography to launch the first ever published collection of her poems, The Hindu Bard: the poems of Dorothy Bonarjee, published by Honno. The collection's editors, Mohini Gupta and Andrew Whitehead, will offer an expert assessment of Bonarjee's writing and a vivid account of her remarkable life, and will be in conversation with Dr Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Dr Faaeza Jasdanwalla-Williams at the launch.
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