Dafydd Ifans (born 21 April 1949) is a contemporary Welsh language novelist and translator, born in Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, west Wales.
[1] Dafydd Ifans was born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1949.
In 1972 he got his diploma in palaeography and archive administration, and his MA in 1974.
From 1972 until 1975 he served a research assistant at the Department of Manuscripts and Records in the National Library of Wales.
In 1974, Ifans won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.