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2008 Wales Book of the Year Long-Listee is Honoured

Llangollen-born short fiction writer Carys Davies has won the Olive Cook Short Story Award for her story 'The Quiet'. Carys was announced as winner at the Society of Authors' 2010 Awards in London on Tuesday 15 June, 2010.

The award, worth £1,000 and judged by Jane Gardam and Jacob Ross, was set up in 2004 and is awarded every two years. The three previous recipients are Claire Keegan, Bethan Roberts and Alison Macleod.

Carys studied Modern Languages at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and has worked as a journalist in London, New York and Chicago. An multiple award-winning short fiction writer, her first collection Some New Ambush was published by Salt in 2007. It was on the 2008 Wales Book of the Year Long List, nominated for the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, was a Finalist for the 2008 Calvino Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Roland Mathias Prize.

For more information about Carys Davies, visit her Writers of Wales entry here. For further details on the Society of Authors' Olive Cook Short Story Award, click here.