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Peter Ho Davies


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Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has degrees in Physics and English, and was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore, and the USA, and was also, for a time, UK business manager for Varsity.

His work has appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, and his short fiction is widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1998 and Best American Short Stories 1995, 1996 and 2001. His own first published collection of short stories was The Ugliest House in the World (1998), which contains tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia. This collection won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second collection, Equal Love, was published in 2000.

Peter Ho Davies lives in the United States and directs the MFA Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.

His first novel, The Welsh Girl, set in a Welsh village during the second world war, was published in 2007.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Dixon, Descending (2024)
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The Best Possible Experience (2023)
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The Sleep Watcher (2023)
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"In her uncanny central conceit Buchanan has hit on a perfect metaphor for the estrangement of adolescence. The Sleep Watcher is a beguiling, atmospheric work, at once wary and tender, of how we haunt our parents and how they in turn possess us."

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Anthologies containing stories by Peter Ho Davies
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Charlie Chan Is Dead 2 (2004)
At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 2)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn
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The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and Barbara Kingsolver
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The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Edgar Wideman

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Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Welsh Girl
The Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year Best Book nominee (2008) : The Welsh Girl


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