Stevie Davies

Stevie Davies
Born	Salisbury,England
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	Welsh
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Period	1978–
Notable works	The Element of Water(2001)
Notable awards	Wales Book of the Year,2002
Website
www.steviedavies.com

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.Her novelThe Element of Waterwas longlisted for theBooker Prizein 2001, and won theWales Book of the Yearin 2002.

Early life

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.After studying at theUniversity of Manchester,Davies went on to lecture in the English department there.

Career

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

Davies has three grown children, a son and two daughters.She is Professor of Creative Writing atSwansea University,and lives inMumbles.

Publications

Fiction

• 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

Non-fiction

• 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

• 1976:The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems,Carcanet
• 2003:Dreams and Other Aggravations: Selected Poems byCarla Lane,Earth Ventures

External links

• Davies' official website