Stevie Davies
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Born | Salisbury,England |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | Welsh |
Alma mater | University of Manchester |
Period | 1978– |
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Stevie Daviesis a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was elected a fellow of theRoyal Society of Literaturein 1998, and is also a fellow of theWelsh Academy.[1][2]Her novelThe Element of Waterwas longlisted for theBooker Prizein 2001, and won theWales Book of the Yearin 2002.
Early life
[edit]Stevie Davies was born inSalisbury,England, but lived in Wales from when she was a week old. The Davies family lived inMorriston,a large town located within the city ofSwansea.The only child of anRAFofficer, Davies left Wales at the age of two and spent a nomadic childhood in Egypt, Germany and Scotland in the 1950s.[3]After studying at theUniversity of Manchester,Davies went on to lecture in the English department there.[4]
Career
[edit]Davies has published widely in the fields of fiction, literary criticism, biography and popular history. Her non-fiction work includes titles on theBrontë family,John MiltonandHenry Vaughan.Davies' first novel,Boy Blue,was published byThe Women's Pressin 1987, and won theFawcett SocietyBook Prize later that year. In 2001, Davies' novelThe Element of Waterwas longlisted for theBooker Prize.It went on to win the 2002Arts Council of WalesBook of the Yearaward.
Personal life
[edit]Davies has three grown children, a son and two daughters.[5]She is Professor of Creative Writing atSwansea University,and lives inMumbles.
Publications
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- 2020:The Party Wall,Honno
- 1987:Boy Blue,The Women's Press
- 1990:Primavera,The Women's Press
- 1992:Arms and the Girl',The Women's Press
- 1994:Closing the Book,The Women's Press
- 1996:Four Dreamers and Emily,The Women's Press
- 1997:The Web of Belonging,The Women's Press
- 1999:Impassioned Clay,The Women's Press
- 2001:The Element of Water,The Women's Press
- 2004:Kith & Kin,Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 2007:The Eyrie,Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 2010:Into Suez,Parthian
- 2013:Awakening,Parthian
- 2016:Equivocator,Parthian
- 2017:Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away,Parthian[6]
Non-fiction
[edit]- 1978:Renaissance Views of Man,Manchester University Press
- 1983:Emily Brontë: The Artist as a Free Woman,Carcanet
- 1983:Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty,University of Missouri Press
- 1986:The Idea of Woman in Renaissance English Literature: The Feminine Reclaimed,The Harvester Press (also published as:The Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton,The University Press of Kentucky)
- 1988:Emily Brontë – Key Women Writers Series,Harvester Press
- 1989:Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse,Penguin Critical Studies
- 1991:Milton – New Readings Series,Harvester Wheatsheaf
- 1993:Shakespeare's Twelfth Night,Penguin Critical Studies
- 1994:Emily Brontë: Heretic,The Women's Press
- 1994:John Donne – Writers and their Work,New Series, Northcote House (in association with theBritish Council)
- 1995:Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew,Penguin Critical Studies
- 1995:Henry Vaughan,Seren
- 1998:Emily Brontë – Writers and Their Work,New Series, Northcote House (in association with the British Council)
- 1998:Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640 – 1660,The Women's Press
- 2001:A Century of Troubles: England 1600 – 1700,Channel 4 Books
As editor
[edit]- 1976:The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems,Carcanet
- 2003:Dreams and Other Aggravations: Selected Poems byCarla Lane,Earth Ventures
References
[edit]- ^"Current RSL Fellows".Royal Society of Literature.Retrieved24 July2017.
- ^"Members of The Welsh Academy".Literature Wales.
- ^"Into Suez by Stevie Davies".The Guardian.24 April 2010.Retrieved25 August2012.
- ^"Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away".Parthian Books.Retrieved27 July2017.
- ^"WM interview: Stevie Davies 'Into Suez'".Wales Online. 14 May 2010.Retrieved25 August2012.
- ^"Stevie Davies".Wales Lit Exchange.Retrieved17 July2022.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- Welsh scholars and academics
- Welsh biographers
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- Academics of Swansea University
- Writers from Swansea
- People from Morriston
- 21st-century Welsh novelists
- 21st-century Welsh short story writers
- 21st-century Welsh women writers
- 21st-century British biographers
- 21st-century Welsh essayists