Aeronwy Thomas

Aeronwy Bryn Thomas-Ellis (3 March 1943 – 27 July 2009) was a poet, writer and translator of Italian poetry. She was the second child and only daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin Macnamara. She had two brothers, Llewelyn and Colm, who are also deceased. Life Born in London, it is thought Thomas was named after the River Aeron in Cardiganshire, Wales, the banks of which are near the home of her parents; in 1942 and 1943, they lived intermittently in Plas Gelli, Talsarn. Between September 1944 and July 1945, Thomas lived with her parents in a bungalow called Majoda, which overlooks the sea in New Quay, Cardiganshire. In May 1949, the family moved to the Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. At the age of 10, Thomas was enrolled by her mother at the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire which is now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She was at Dartington Hall School in Devon for one year in 1958. After her father's death in 1953, she and her mother went to Rome, later moving to Sicily after her mother began a relationship with her long-term partner Giuseppe Fazio. Thomas earned a bachelor's degree in English and comparative religion at Isleworth College, as well as a TEFL diploma at Woking Adult Education College. In 2003 she was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Wales, Swansea.