Stevie Davies

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Stevie Davies
Born Salisbury, England
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityWelsh
Alma mater University of Manchester
Period1978–
Notable works
Notable awards
Website
www.steviedavies.com

Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, and is also a fellow of the Welsh Academy. [1] [2] Her novel The Element of Water was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, and won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002.

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Early life

Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, England, but lived in Wales from when she was a week old. The Davies family lived in Morriston, a large town located within the city of Swansea. The only child of an RAF officer, Davies left Wales at the age of two and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Germany and Scotland in the 1950s. [3] After studying at the University of Manchester, Davies went on to lecture in the English department there. [4] Concurrently she married Douglas Brooks another lecturer at Manchester who adopted the name Douglas Brooks-Davies.

Career

Davies has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. Her non-fiction work includes titles on the Brontë family, John Milton and Henry Vaughan. Davies' first novel, Boy Blue, was published by The Women's Press in 1987, and won the Fawcett Society Book Prize later that year. In 2001, Davies' novel The Element of Water was longlisted for the Booker Prize. It went on to win the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year award.

Personal life

Davies has three grown children, a son and two daughters. [5] She is Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University, and lives in Mumbles.

Publications

Fiction

Non-fiction

As editor

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References

  1. "Current RSL Fellows". Royal Society of Literature . Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  2. "Members of The Welsh Academy". Literature Wales.
  3. "Into Suez by Stevie Davies". The Guardian . 24 April 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  4. "Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away". Parthian Books . Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  5. "WM interview: Stevie Davies 'Into Suez'". Wales Online. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  6. "Stevie Davies". Wales Lit Exchange. Retrieved 17 July 2022.