Peter Ho Davies


Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.
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Biography

Born and raised in Coventry, England, Davies was a pupil at King Henry VIII School. He studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University.
In 1992, he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently a professor in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Awards and honours

Davies has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists".
Both A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and Equal Love were named as New York Times Notable Book.
His short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's and The Paris Review and been widely anthologized, appearing in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998, and Best American Short Stories 1995, 1996, and 2001. The Boston Globe named The Welsh Girl one of the best fiction books of 2007, and People magazine named A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself one of the ten best books of the year.
YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef.
1998The Ugliest House in the WorldJohn Llewellyn Rhys Prize—Won
1998The Ugliest House in the WorldOregon Book Award—Won
1999The Ugliest House in the WorldPEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award—Won
2000Equal LoveLos Angeles Times Book PrizeFiction
2007The Welsh GirlMan Booker Prize—
2008—PEN/Malamud Award—Won
2017The FortunesAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardFictionWon
2017The FortunesChautauqua Prize—Won
2022A Lie Someone Told You About YourselfAspen Words Literary Prize—

Publications

Short-story collections

The Ugliest House in the World
  • ''Equal Love''

Novels

The Welsh Girl The Fortunes
  • ''A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself''

Non fiction

  • ''The Art of Revision: The Last Word''