Ian Parri

A journalist and newspaper columnist by trade, Ian Parri also works as a Welsh-English-Welsh translator. He has worked in numerous professions, including stints in an industrial laboratory, running a bar & restaurant, script writing for TV and radio, and producing radio news programmes for BBC Radio Cymru.

His first language is Welsh. His volume Nid yr A470 was included on the long list for the Welsh Book of the Year.

Newyddiadurwr a cholofnydd papur newydd ydy Ian Parri, sydd hefyd yn cynnig gwasanaeth cyfieithu Cymraeg-Saesneg-Cymraeg. Cafodd brofiad mewn sawl maes, gan gynnwys mewn labordy diwydiannol, yn rhedeg tafarn a bwyty, ysgrifennu sgriptiau teledu a radio, ac yn cynhyrchu rhaglenni newyddion i Radio Cymru.

Mae'n Gymro Cymraeg, a rhoddwyd ei gyfrol Nid yr A470 ar restr hir Llyfr Cymraeg y Flwyddyn.