Deborah Kay Davies

Deborah Kay Davies is a Welsh poet, writer, and educator. She received her PhD from Cardiff University.[1] In 2009 she received a Wales Book of the Year for English-language for the short story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful (2008).[2] Her novels are True Things About Me (2010) and Reasons She Goes to the Woods (2014).[3]

Deborah Kay Davies
BornPontypool, South Wales, United Kingdom
OccupationPoet, writer, educator
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry, short story, novel

Born in Pontypool, South Wales,[1] in 2014 she was living in Cardiff. She was an educator of creative writing at both Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan. [3]

The film True Things (2021) is based on her novel, True Things About Me.

Books

  • Things You Think I Don't Know, 2006, Cardigan: Parthian Books ISBN 1-90576-221-6
  • Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, 2008, Cardigan: Parthian Books ISBN 978-1-90576-290-3
  • True Things About Me, 2010 (Edinburgh: Canongate Books); London: Faber and Faber, 2011 ISBN 978-0-865478541

References

  1. "Deborah Kay Davies". WalesOnline. 22 April 2009.
  2. Briscoe, Joanna (30 July 2010). "True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies". The Guardian.
  3. "The Rhys Davies Trust". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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