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'''Robin Llwyd ab Owain''' is a Welsh author, poet, and Wikipedian. He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1991. In 2013, he was appointed Wikimedia UK's first Wales Manager. He is the son of poet and writer Owain Owain.
==Writing== In 1991, Owain won the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Mold for a poem titled "{{Lang|cy|italics=no|Awdl Foliant Merch ein Hamserau}}" (The Girl of Our Times).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |title=Winners of the Chair |publisher=National Eisteddfod |access-date=8 October 2021 |archive-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |url-status=dead }}</ref> His poems have been read on television by actor Rhys Ifans, but the poet himself has declined to be interviewed in the mass media.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ylolfa.com/authors/266/robin-llwyd-ab-owain|title=Robin Llwyd ab Owain|website=Y Lolfa|access-date=12 April 2022}}</ref> In December 1996 he published a volume of poems on the web under the title "Rebel ar y We" (Rebel on the Web), described by the Academi as the first Welsh language book to have been published on the web<ref>[http://www.academi.org/rhestr-o-awduron/i/130060/ The Welsh Academy (Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409011809/http://www.academi.org/rhestr-o-awduron/i/130060/ |date=9 April 2009 }}</ref> — since renamed as "{{Lang|cy|italics=no|Rhedeg ar Wydyr}}" (Running on Glass).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barddoniaeth.com|title=Barddoniaeth gan Robin Llwyd ab Owain, Rhuthun|website=barddoniaeth.com|accessdate=28 March 2018}}</ref>
Owain has written for television and radio, and has also written and published over 100 songs, sometimes collaborating with his friend, singer and songwriter Rhys Meirion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/rhys-launches-his-second-cd-2933191|title=Rhys launches his second CD|date=11 February 2004|website=Daily Post|access-date=12 April 2022}}</ref> Bryn Terfel has performed "{{Lang|cy|italics=no|Brenin y Ser}}" (The King of The Stars), which was written by Owain and the composer Robat Arwyn, as was "Pedair Oed", recorded by Côr Rhuthun and Rhys Meirion in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corrhuthun.co.uk/tud/disgiau.htm|title=Recordings|website=Côr Rhuthun|language=cy|access-date=12 April 2022}}</ref>
==Other work== Owain was a head teacher,<ref name="BBC"/> who has worked at Ysgol Glan Morfa, Abergele and Ysgol Llangwm. In the early 1990s he served as mayor of Ruthin.<ref>{{cite news |author=Emrys Wynne |url=http://www.ruthincivic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2018-June-Town-and-Around.pdf |title=Ruthin & District Twinning Association 25th Anniversary |newspaper=Town & Around: O Gwmpas y Dre |publisher=Ruthin & District Civic Association |date=June 2018 |page=14 }}</ref>
==Wikimedia== On 1 July 2013, Owain was appointed the first Wales Manager by Wikimedia UK and Wici Cymru,<ref name="wmuk">{{Cite web|url = http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/07/wikimedia-uk-yn-penodi-rheolwr-i-gymru-wikimedia-uk-appoints-wales-manager/|title = Wikimedia UK yn penodi Rheolwr i Gymru / Wikimedia UK appoints Wales Manager|date = 2013-07-02|publisher = Wikimedia UK|accessdate = 2013-07-25}}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-23402054|title=Wicipedia Cymraeg: New manager looks to expand Wiki in Welsh |publisher=BBC News|date=22 July 2013 |accessdate=8 October 2021 }}</ref> with the objective of expanding {{Interlanguage link multi|Wicipedia Cymraeg|cy}} (Welsh Wikipedia). As part of this programme, the Welsh Assembly contributed financially to the training of new editors.<ref name="BBC" />
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