Carys Davies
Carys Davies is a British novelist and short story writer. She was born in Llangollen, North Wales, and grew up in Newport, South Wales, and the Midlands, England. She studied modern languages at St Anne's College, Oxford, and worked as a freelance journalist in New York and Chicago before moving to Lancaster, Lancashire. She currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her fiction often explores themes of settlement, land theft, colonization, and religious conflict.
Awards
["Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award", 'Wales Book of the Year Fiction Award', 'Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize', 'Royal Society of Literature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize', 'Society of Authors Olive Cook Short Story award', 'Ondaatje Prize', 'The Sunday Times 2020 Novel of the Year', 'Bookmark Festival Book of the Year', "Northern Writers' Award", 'Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library']
Notable Works
['Some New Ambush', 'The Redemption of Galen Pike', 'West', 'The Mission House', 'Clear']
