Hafina Clwyd (1 July 1936 – 14 March 2011) was a Welsh educator, writer and journalist. She had a weekly column in theWestern Mail.^[1]

Mair Hafina Clwyd Jones was born atGwyddelwern, and raised on a farm atLlandyrnog. Her family were Welsh speakers. She trained to be a teacher atBangor Normal College.^[2]

Clwyd moved to London at age 21, to work as a teacher. There she co-founded a Welsh literary club, and was an officer of theHonourable Society of Cymmrodorion.^[1]

After returning to Wales in the late 1970s, she edited a community newspaper inRuthin (Y Bedol) and a national weekly newspaper,Y Faner. She was on the Ruthin town council from 1999 until the year she died, and served a term as mayor of the town (2008–2009).^[3] She was recognized with an honorary fellowship at Bangor University in 2005, "for services to journalism."^[4]

Clwyd published eleven books, mainly essay collections, includingClichau yn y Glaw (1973),^[5]Defaid yn Chwerthin (1980),Clust y Wenci (1997) andPrynu Lein Ddillad (2009)^[6] Her works also included an edition of her own diaries from young womanhood,Buwch ar y Lein (1987), an autobiography,Merch Morfydd (1987), and a local history,Pobol sy'n Cyfri (2001). She also editedWelsh Family History: A Guide to Research.^[2] Her last book,Mynd i'r Gwrych: Dyddiaduron, 1993–1999 (2011) was published posthumously.^[7]

Clwyd married fellow teacher Clifford Coppack as her second husband in 1971. She was widowed in 1997. Hafina Clwyd died in 2011, age 74, frommelanoma.^[8]

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