Peter Ho Davies

For other people named Peter Ho, see Peter Ho (disambiguation).

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

Peter Ho Davies
Born	1966 (age 58–59) Coventry, England
Alma mater	Manchester University; Cambridge University
Occupation	Writer
Notable work	The Ugliest House in the World (1997); The Fortunes (2016)
Awards	Oregon Book Award; John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award; Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Chautauqua Prize
Website	peterhodavies.com

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Awards and honours

Davies has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.^[3] In 2003, he was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty "Best of Young British Novelists".

Both A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and Equal Love were named as New York Times Notable Book.

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,^[4] 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	Category	Result	Ref.
1998	The Ugliest House in the World	John Llewellyn Rhys Prize	—	Won	[5]
		Oregon Book Award	—	Won	[6]
1999		PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award	—	Won	[7]
2000	Equal Love	Los Angeles Times Book Prize	Fiction	Finalist	[8]
2007	The Welsh Girl	Man Booker Prize	—	Longlisted	[9]
2008	—	PEN/Malamud Award	—	Won	[3][10][11]
2017	The Fortunes	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award	Fiction	Won	[12]
		Chautauqua Prize	—	Won	[13]
2022	A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself	Aspen Words Literary Prize	—	Longlisted	[14]

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)