Carys Davies

Carys Davies

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 Carys Davies

Carys Davies’s debut novel West was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, Runner Up for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize, and winner of the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction. Her second novel The Mission House was published in August 2020, and is selected to our 2020–21 Bookcase. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. She is the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, a Northern Writers’ Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and is a member of the Folio Academy. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages. Born in Wales, she lived and worked in Chicago and New York for twelve years and now lives in Edinburgh.

Watch Carys discuss and read from her latest novel, The Mission House, here.