He has twice won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and is twice winner of the Daniel Owen Prize for a novel.
Guto Dafydd was born in Pwllheli and began winning prizes for both poetry and prose in local competitions while he was still a pupil at Ysgol Uwchradd Glan y Mor.
Guto Dafydd has a wife named Lisa and two children, Casi Mallt and Nedw Lludd.
He works for the Welsh Language Commissioner.
[3] In 2015 he was diagnosed with fibromatosis, which resulted in his having to undergo radiotherapy;[4] he used this experience in his novel, Ymbelydredd, which won the Daniel Owen Prize (Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen) in the following year.