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Grahame Davies was born on 1964 in Coedpoeth, Wales, is a British writer. Discover Grahame Davies's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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1964

Grahame Clive Davies CVO (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, librettist, literary critic and former 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.

1986

His career as a journalist and producer between 1986 and 2012 brought him a number of Welsh and industry awards.

1994

He won the vers libre prize in the National Eisteddfod in 1994 and 2022, the sonnet prize in 2004 and 2016, the Poem Suitable for Song prize in 2017 and the Welsh Academi's Stomp competition in 2001.

His work has been translated into several languages, including English, German, Latvian, Maltese, Bulgarian, Polish, Asturian and Galician, and is widely anthologised, appearing in publications as diverse as The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry London, the Literary Review in America, and the Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English.

His poem 'Departed' was Poem of the Week in The Guardian.

He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to journals such as Poetry Wales, Barn, Taliesin, Planet and New Welsh Review, and his poetry is on the syllabus for school pupils in Wales.

He was a regular columnist with Barddas.

He reads regularly at festivals and venues, including the Berlin Poesiefestival, the National Eisteddfod, the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, several times at the Hay on Wye Festival of Literature and at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

He has represented Wales at literary events in Europe, United States and Canada, and frequently appears on television and radio.

1997

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.

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.

1999

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).

2000

In 2000, he co-edited Oxygen (Seren), a bilingual anthology of Welsh poets aged under 45.

2001

In 2001, his second volume of poetry, Cadwyni Rhyddid (Barddas), appeared.

2002

It went to a second edition within a few months of publication, won the Wales Arts Council's 2002 Book of the Year award at the Hay on Wye Festival of Literature, together with a prize of £3,000.

In 2002, Seren Press published his literary anthology, The Chosen People, which details the relationship of the Welsh and the Jewish people as reflected in literature.

Also in 2002, he edited a 160-page edition of the Bulgarian literary magazine Plamak (“Flame”) dedicated to Welsh literature, the first such anthology of Welsh writing in the Balkans.

In 2002 Ffiniau/Borders appeared from Gomer press, a bilingual volume of poetry jointly with Elin ap Hywel.

2003

In 2003, he chaired the panel of judges for the Welsh Book of the Year Awards.

The first prize of £5,000 went to Jerry Hunter's Llwch Cenhedloedd.

2004

In 2004 his first novel Rhaid i Bopeth Newid was published by Gomer.

As a literary critic he has chaired the panel of judges for the £10,000 2004 Book of the Year Award, and has also adjudicated other major competitions such as the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry and the National Eisteddfod's 2006 and 2011 Literary Medal Competitions.

He was Vice President of Goodenough College in London and an Honorary Research Fellow in Cardiff University.

He has carried out many major commissions as a librettist for classical composers, including Sir Karl Jenkins, Paul Mealor, Sarah Class, Debbie Wiseman, Tom Harrold, Roderick Williams, Peter Boyer and Joanna Gill.

For the 2023 coronation of Charles III, Davies' text Sacred Fire was set to a composition by Sarah Class and performed by South African soprano Pretty Yende.

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2005

It was longlisted for the £10,000 Book of the Year prize, 2005, and was described by Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas in the Welsh poetry periodical Taliesin as 'the first post-national novel.' Also in 2004, his selection of Welsh poetry in Asturian translation appeared in Spain from Kêr ar Mor press under the title Nel país del borrina (The Country of the Clouds).

In 2005, his selection of Welsh poetry in Galician translation appeared under the title of No país de la brétema from VTP Editorial.

He was a board member of the Welsh Academi from 2005-2011 and was the Welsh language editor of Poetry Wales magazine for several years until 2002.