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Deborah Kay Davies

Deborah Kay Davies

Welsh writer

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]

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