Peter Ho Davies

The Welsh Girl, 2007, Longlisted

Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies’s first short story collection, The Ugliest House in the World, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the PEN/ MacMillan Prize. His second, Equal Love, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a New York Times Notable Book. In 2003 he was named one of the ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ by Granta.  He is currently director of the graduate programme in creative writing at the University of Michigan. The son of a Welsh father and a Chinese mother, Davies was raised in England and spent his summers in Wales. He is married with one son.

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