Writer and daughter of Dylan Thomas; Died July 27, 2009.

Aeronwy Thomas, who has died of leukaemia aged 66, was the daughter and second child of Dylan Thomas and his feisty wife, Caitlin.

Over the years, she became the keeper of her father's memory while also writing poetry and translating Italian poets. Her autobiography, My Father's Places, is due to be published soon.

Her early childhood (overshadowed by her parents' drunken rows) was spent in Laugharne, the Carmarthenshire seaside village made famous by her father. But, after his death in 1953, she lived with her mother, who had married an Italian, in Sicily and then Rome. In the past 20 years she had lived quietly in Surrey, emerging periodically to support, in her undemonstrative manner, Dylan Thomas events in Wales and elsewhere.

Aeronwy Thomas was born in 1943, in London, the second of the three Thomas children. Her late elder brother, Llewelyn, was born in 1939; her younger, Colm, in 1949. In 1973, she married Trefor Ellis, and the pair moved to New Malden in Surrey where he worked for an electrical company. There she brought up their son and daughter.

She is survived by her husband and children. Her mother died in 1994.