Grahame Davies
| Grahame Davies | |
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| Born | 1964 Coedpoeth |
| Occupation | poet, author, editor and literary critic |
| Notable awards |
Literature Wales Bursary |
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Literature Wales Bursary
Honorary D.Litt. Anglia Ruskin University
Ruth Howarth Literature Award
Honorary Research Fellowship, Cardiff University
2x Academi Bursary Awards
Fellowship of Goodenough College, London
Cerdd Deyrnged, National Eisteddfod of Wales
Longlist for Book of the Year
Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year
Winner, Stomp, National Eisteddfod of Wales
Welsh Arts Council Writer's Bursary Award
Harri Webb Memorial Poetry Prize
Grahame Davies (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, literary critic and journalist. He was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham in north east Wales.
After gaining a degree in English Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, he qualified as a journalist with the Thomson Organisation at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1997, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Wales for his study, written in Welsh, of the work of R.S.Thomas, Saunders Lewis, T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil, whom he identified as part of an anti-modern trend in Western culture in the 20th Century.
His career as a journalist and producer has brought him a number of Welsh and UK industry awards. In 1997, his first volume of poetry, Adennill Tir, (Barddas,) a book arising from the 10 years he spent in Merthyr Tydfil in the south Wales Valleys, won the Harri Webb Memorial Prize.
In 1999, his study of Wales and the anti-modern movement, Sefyll yn y Bwlch (University of Wales Press, 1999), the product of his doctoral research, was published. It went "straight to the front rank of criticism of our day," according to the critic Dr Dafydd Glyn Jones (Barn), and was described as "a signal book" by the critic Dr Angharad Price (New Welsh Review). In 2000, he co-edited Oxygen, (Seren) a bilingual anthology of Welsh poets aged under 45.
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