Deborah Kay Davies Explained

Deborah Kay Davies
Birth Place:Pontypool, South Wales, United Kingdom
Language:English
Occupation:Poet, writer, educator
Genre:Poetry, short story, novel

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]

Born in Pontypool, South Wales, 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deborah Kay Davies. 22 April 2009. WalesOnline.
  2. News: Briscoe . Joanna . True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies . The Guardian . 30 July 2010 . en.
  3. Web site: The Rhys Davies Trust . 25 August 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170331121237/http://rhysdaviestrust.org/projects/rhys-davies-short-story-competition . 31 March 2017 . dead .