Murray Davies is a
Welsh
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author and journalist.
He was born into a mining family in South Wales. He won a scholarship to
UCW Aberystwyth where he studied international politics, followed by an MA in First World War poetry. He worked for the ''
Daily Mail
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'' and
Mirror Group
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as a reporter and feature writer. After twenty years as a journalist, he became a novelist. His novel, ''
Collaborator'', won the
Sidewise Award for Alternate History
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in 2003.
His other works include ''The Devils Handshake'', ''Dogs on the Street'', ''Samson Option'' and ''The Drumbeat Of Jimmy Sands''.
Davies lives in
Wiltshire
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.
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Living people
Sidewise Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Aberystwyth University
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