Carys Davies

Carys Davies is the author of three novels and two short-story collections. Her debut novel West was named the Wales Book of the Year for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, and was runner-up for the Sciety of Authors' McKitterick Prize. Her novel The Mission House was a Sunday Times (London) 2020 Novel of the Year. Her short story collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the 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, 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.