Deborah Kay Davies is a Welsh poet, writer, and educator. She received her PhD from

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. In 2009 she received a

Wales Book of the Year The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors. Established in 1992, the awards are currently ad ...

for English-language for the

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collection ''Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful'' (2008). Her novels are ''True Things About Me'' (2010) and ''Reasons She Goes to the Woods'' (2014). Born in

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, South Wales, in 2014 she was living in

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. She was an educator of

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at both

and the

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. 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 *''Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful'', 2008, Cardigan: Parthian Books *''True Things About Me'', 2010 (Edinburgh:

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); London:

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, 2011

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century British short story writers 21st-century Welsh novelists 21st-century Welsh women writers 21st-century Welsh writers Anglo-Welsh novelists Anglo-Welsh women poets Welsh short story writers Welsh women novelists People from Pontypool Alumni of Cardiff University British women short story writers Academics of Cardiff University Academics of the University of Glamorgan {{Wales-writer-stub