Siân James (20 September 1930 – 21 July 2021)[1] was a Welsh novelist, academic and translator, who wrote in English.
James, born in Coed-y-bryn in Ceredigion, attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
[1] Siân James twice won the Yorkshire Post Prize, for her first and second novels One Afternoon and Yesterday.
[3][4] In 2006, A Small Country was adapted as a Welsh-language TV series, Calon Gaeth, which won the 2007 Bafta Cymru award for Best Drama/Drama Serial for Television.
[5] James translated Kate Roberts's novel Y Byw Sy'n Cysgu into English as The Awakening.