Sarah Waters

Awdures o Gymru sy'n ysgrifennu yn Saesneg yw **Sarah Waters** (ganed 21 Gorffennaf 1966), sydd fwyaf adnabyddus am ei nofelau sydd wedi eu gosod yn oes Fictoria, megis *Tipping the Velvet* a *Fingersmith*.

## Bywgraffiad
Ganed Sarah Waters yn Neyland, Sir Benfro, yn ferch i Ron a Mary Walters. Gwraig tŷ oedd ei mam, peiriannydd mewn purfa olew oedd ei thad, ac roedd ganddi chwaer. Disgrifiai ei theulu fel un gweddol deniadol, hynod o ddiogel a magwriaethol, ac roedd ei thad yn berson arbennig o greadigol, a anogodd hi i adeiladu a dyfeisio.

Mynychodd Ysgol Gyfun Aberdaugleddau cyn mynd ymlaen i astudio Saesneg, gan ennill gradd baglor o Brifysgol Caint, gradd meistr o Brifysgol Caerhirfryn, a Doethuriaeth o Brifysgol y Frenhines Mary, Llundain. Fel rhan o'i ymchwil, darllenodd bornograffi'r 19g, ac yno daeth ar draws teitl ei nofel gyntaf, *Tipping the Velvet*. Mae hi wedi bod yn dysgu Cymraeg tra yn Llundain yn y City Lit. 

Cyn cychwyn ysgrifennu nofelau, gweithiodd Waters fel academydd, gan ennill doethuriaeth a dysgu eraill. Cyn gynted ag y gorffennodd ei doethuriaeth, ysgrifennodd ei nofel gyntaf. Yn wir, tarddiad syniadau'r nofel oedd ei thesis. Mae Waters yn aelod o gylch London North Writers, sydd wedi cynnwys yr awduron Charles Palliser a Neil Blackmore ymysg eraill.

Heblaw am ei llyfr diweddaraf, *The Little Stranger*, mae ei holl nofelau'n dilyn themâu lesbiaidd. Mae'r nofel yn cymryd ei theitl o'r slang Fictoraidd am *cunnilingus*.

### *Affinity* (1999)
Waters's second book, *Affinity* was published a year after her first, in 1999. The novel, also set in the Victorian era, centres on the world of Victorian Spiritualism. While finishing her debut novel, Waters had been working on an academic paper on spiritualism. She combined her interests in spiritualism, prisons, and the Victorian era in *Affinity*, which tells the story of the relationship between an upper middle-class woman and an imprisoned spiritualist.

The novel is less light-hearted than the ones that preceded and followed it. Waters found it less enjoyable to write.

*Affinity* won the Stonewall Book Award and Somerset Maugham Award. Andrew Davies wrote a screenplay adapting *Affinity* and the resulting feature film premiered 19 June 2008 at the opening night of Frameline the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival at the Castro Theater.

### *Fingersmith* (2002)
*Fingersmith* was published in 2002. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize.

*Fingersmith* was made into a serial for BBC One in 2005, starring Sally Hawkins, Elaine Cassidy and Imelda Staunton. Waters approved of the adaptation, calling it "especially a really good quality show", and said it was "very faithful to the book. It was spookily faithful to the book at times, which was exciting."

### *The Little Stranger* (2009) 
Also set in the 1940s, *The Little Stranger* also diverts from Waters' previous novels. It is her first with no overtly lesbian characters. Initially, Waters set out to write a book about the economic changes brought by socialism in postwar Britain, and reviewers note the connection with Evelyn Waugh. Along the novel's construction, it turned into a ghost story in the style of Edgar Allan Poe as the story explores the relationship of a family who owns a grand estate that they can no longer afford to keep, with their family doctor whose mother was once a maid in the house. Waters' grandparents were servants in a country house.

### Nofel newydd
Waters’ next book will be set in the 1920s, and she expects to finish writing it by the end of 2012. 

The new novel will feature lesbian characters. Waters said:

## Gwobrau
Sarah Waters was named as one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Writers in January 2003. The same year, she received the South Bank Award for Literature. She was named Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards.

Each of her novels has received awards as well.

### *Tipping the Velvet*
* Betty Trask Award, 1999
* Library Journal's Best Book of the Year, 1999
* Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, 1999
* New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award, 1999
* Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction (shortlist), 2000
* Lambda Literary Award for Fiction, 2000

### *Affinity*
* Stonewall Book Award (American Library Association GLBT Roundtable Book Award), 2000
* Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award (shortlist), 2000
* Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2000
* Lambda Literary Award for Fiction (shortlist), 2000
* Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist), 2000
* Somerset Maugham Award for Lesbian and Gay Fiction, 2000
* Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, 2000

### *Fingersmith*
* British Book Awards Author of the Year, 2002
* Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2002
* Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2002
* Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2002

### *The Night Watch*
* Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2006
* Orange Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2006
* Lambda Literary Award, 2007

### *The Little Stranger*
* Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist), 2009
* Nominee for Shirley Jackson Award, 2009 

## Cyfeiriadau
## Dolenni allanol
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*British Council Biography and Bibliography
*Virago Profile 

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