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

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

. In 2009 she received a

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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

Pontypool Pontypool ( ) is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of Torfaen, within the Historic counties of Wales, historic boundaries of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire in South Wales. , it has a population of 29,062. Locat ...

, 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

University of Glamorgan The University of Glamorgan () was a public university based in South Wales, that merged with University of Wales, Newport to form the University of South Wales in April 2013. The university was based in Pontypridd, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, with ...

. 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 Welsh women short story writers Academics of Cardiff University Academics of the University of Glamorgan Welsh women academics {{Wales-writer-stub