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Carys Davies

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Connection to Illinois: Davies lived and worked for twelve years in New York and Chicago.

Biography: 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. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, Some New Ambush and The Redemption of Galen Pike, which won the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Her other awards include the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Prize, the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, a Northern Writers' Award, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Born in Wales, she lived and worked for twelve years in New York and Chicago, and now lives in Edinburgh.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://www.carysdavies.net
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Carys++Davies


Selected Titles

The Mission House
ISBN: 1982144831 OCLC: 1236025847

Scribner 2021

Taking refuge in a mission house in a remote hill town in India, an Englishman fleeing the dark undercurrents of contemporary life bonds with a Padre's daughter against a backdrop of escalating religious tensions.

 

 

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