Manon Steffan Ros

This week my guest is Welsh author Manon Steffan Ros. Her first novel for adults Fel Aderyn (Like a Bird), reached the shortlist for Wales Book of the Year in 2010 and her novel Blasu won the Fiction Prize at the 2013 Wales Book of the Year. As well as her books for adults, Ros has found great acclaim in her writing for young adults and children. Ros translated 'Llyfr Glas Nebo' into English with the title 'The Blue Book of Nebo' and it won the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal (the first translated book to do so). She has won the prestigious Tir Na N-Og prize for Welsh children’s literature four times, with her novels Trwy’r Tonnau (2010), Prism (2012), Pluen (2017) and Fi a Joe Allen (2019). We talk about how Manon has used creativity and writing to help her through the grief of losing her Mum, who died of cancer when Manon was just 19.You can follow Manon on Twitter @ManonSteffanRosFeels Like Healing is a show where we discuss how creativity can help us heal.These conversations are here to show how those who have suffered loss have found comfort and solace through the act of being creative and how creativity can help us all better understand our grief and reach a place of healing.::You can follow Feels Like Healing on Instagram / Twitter / Facebook @flhpodcastProduced / Edited by Al LewisTheme music by Al Lewis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Feels like Healing is a series of conversations between myself Al Lewis and individuals who have turned to creativity as a way of helping them heal.Our need for healing is universal. However the reasons behind it can be oh so varied; a difficult childhood, a traumatic experience or perhaps a bereavement and our need to process grief.My search for healing stems from the death of my Dad, who died when I was 21 from Multiple Sclerosis.For over fifteen years I'd kept a quiet lid on my grief. However when it came to clearing out the last remaining boxes from my Dad's attic, that grief that I'd suppressed came rushing to the surface. It was then that I began to write songs about my Dad. Writing those songs was incredibly cathartic and I realised how useful creativity can be when confronted with the hardest parts of life.I believe that hearing other people's stories can help us to process ours and that the act of being creative can help turn something seemingly hopeless and incomprehensible in to something beautiful and hopeful.These conversations are here to provide solace and inspiration and to show you that healing can happen when we take our deepest pain and turn it into a work of art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.