Award-winning novelist and short story writer Peter Ho Davies will read at the next Writers in the Library event on Monday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium at Hodges Library.

Davies’ first novel, The Welsh Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), was named a 2008 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and was nominated for the Booker Prize. The novel received much critical acclaim. Alan Cheuse of The Chicago Tribune said of the novel, “Sentence by sentence, character by character, scene by scene, it’s one of the best of the winter so far.”

Davies is also the author of two collections of short stories, The Ugliest House in the World (Houghton Mifflin, 1998) and Equal Love (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Davies’ short stories have won multiple awards, including the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the H. L. Davis Oregon Book Award for The Ugliest House in the World. Equal Love was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000.

The novel focuses on a 17-year-old Welsh girl during World War II whose village is taken over by a British-built camp for German POWs.

Peter Ho Davies received his MA in Creative Writing from Boston University. He also has degrees in Physics and English. The son of Welsh and Chinese parents, the well-traveled Davies has worked in Singapore, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom. He now directs the Creative Writing program at the University of Michigan.

The Writers in the Library series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department. For further information, please contact Jo Anne Deeken, head of technical services, UT Libraries, at 974-6905 or jdeeken@utk.edu, or Kali Meister, Jack E. Reese writer in residence, UT Libraries, at meisterkali@gmail.com.