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Urddo’r nofelydd a cholofnydd y Times Caitlin Moran yn Gymrawd

Cafodd y nofelydd arobryn a cholofnydd y Times, Caitlin Moran, ei hurddo yn Gymrawd Prifysgol Aberystwyth ddydd Gwener 13 Gorffennaf.

Cyflwynwyd Caitlin Moran yn Gymrawd gan Rebecca Davies, Dirprwy Is-Ganghellor â chyfrifoldeb am Wasanaethau Myfyrwyr a Staff Prifysgol Aberystwyth.

Cyflwyniad Caitlin Moran fel Cymrawd:
“Presentation of Caitlin Moran as Fellow of Aberystwyth University by Rebecca Davies, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Student and Staff Services.

Caitlin Moran wrote her first novel at 15, joined the Melody Maker at 16 and has presented music shows on channel 4.

She is a leading columnist on the Times, winning the British Press Awards’ Columnist of The Year award in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011.

As a follower of her tweets, I had noticed a few references to Aberystwyth and then she wrote a fantastic article on "why She loves Aberystwyth". Rarely has anyone captured more clearly the sense of place for us here, and I'm sure all of us as graduates, friends and family will recognise her description of our wonderful town:

There was something so perfect about Aber that it halted my lifelong internal monologue. I needed silence to take the place in fully. It had a Gothic university like a castle, castle ruins like a smashed cake, a clifftop Victorian theme park… and then — slicing the town in half like a fabulous blindness — the cold, hard, glitter-glue of the sea. Apparently, dolphins chased by the rock pools at dawn.

And though I can't often claim to see the dolphins at dawn, they are out there and can only hope that we have remembered to send them their invite to today's graduation.

In 2011 she published her latest book, which is a part memoir, part rant on How To Be A Woman – following her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, TopShop, motherhood and beyond.

This book has won a plethora of awards, including: Galaxy Book of the Year 2011; Galaxy Popular Non-Fiction Award; Irish Book Award (RTE Listeners Choice) and most importantly, saw me through a 5.15am train trip from Aberystwyth to Wolverhampton.

Caitlin did mention her favourite place in the whole world Aberystwyth South beach in her book and I would like to introduce you to Caitlin Moran, fellow of Aberystwyth University. And I hope that you, like me will recognise that we, like Caitlin when we came to Aberystwyth, “something in her heart twanged. It wasn’t like falling in love. I just felt … not unhappy any more.”

Mae wyth Cymrawd yn cael eu hurddo gan Brifysgol Aberystwyth yn ystod y seremonïau eleni sydd yn cael eu cynnal rhwng dydd Mawrth 10 a dydd Gwener 13 Gorffennaf.

Cyflwynir y teitl o Gymrawd er mwyn anrhydeddu pobl adnabyddus a chanddynt gysylltiad agos â Phrifysgol Aberystwyth neu rai sydd wedi gwneud cyfraniad mawr i fywyd proffesiynol neu gyhoeddus yng Nghymru.

Cymrodyr 2012 yw'r actor Michael Sheen, y gyflwynwraig deledu Alex Jones, Yr Athro Michael Clarke, Cyfarwyddwr y Sefydliad Gwasanaethau Unedig Brenhinol, Mark Price, Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr Waitrose, Dr Jan Jaroslav Pinkava, enillydd Oscar, Y Parch. John Gwilym Jones, cyn Archdderwydd Cymru, Caitlin Moran, darlledwraig, beirniad teledu a cholofnydd, a’r barnwr Sir David Lloyd Jones.