# Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966), is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.

## 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".
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.
Awards for Davies's writing :
| Year | Title | Award | Result |
| 1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | Oregon Book Award | Won |
| 1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize | Won |
| 1999 | The Ugliest House in the World | PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award | Won |
| 2000 | Equal Love | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction | Finalist |
| 2000 | Equal Love | New York Times Notable Book | Selection |
| 2007 | The Welsh Girl | Man Booker Prize for Fiction | Longlist |
| 2008 | — | PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction | Won |
| 2017 | The Fortunes | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction | Won |
| 2017 | The Fortunes | Chautauqua Prize | Won |
| 2021 | A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself | New York Times Notable Book | Selection |
| 2022 | A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself | Aspen Words Literary Prize | Longlist |

## Publications
### Short-story collections

* The Ugliest House in the World (1997)
* Equal Love (2000)

### Novels

* The Welsh Girl (2007)
* The Fortunes (2016)
* A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (2021)

### Non fiction

* The Art of Revision: The Last Word (2021)

## References and notes

* ↑ Hoggard, Liz (13 May 2007). "Review | A Chinese Welshman in the USA". The Observer. London. Retrieved 4 February 2008.
* ↑ "Helen Zell Writers' Program". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
* 1 2 PEN America (25 October 2016). "The PEN Ten with Peter Ho Davies". PEN America. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "Best Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2007". The Boston Globe. 28 November 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
* ↑ "Oregon Book Awards". Literary Arts. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "The Mail on Sunday/John Llewllyn Rhys Prize". Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
* ↑ "PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award | Book awards". LibraryThing. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "2000 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction Winner and Nominees". Awards Archive. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "Prize Archive: 2007". The Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
* ↑ "Cynthia Ozick to Receive $20,000 PEN/Nabokov Award". PEN America (Press release). 24 April 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "Past Award Winners". PEN / Faulkner. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
* ↑ "Winners". Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "Peter Ho Davies' The Fortunes wins 2017 Chautauqua Prize". Chautauqua Institution. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
* ↑ "2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist". Aspen Words. Retrieved 10 March 2022.