Carys Davies

Éclaircie - the French edition of Clear, translated by David Fauquembourg and published by La Table Ronde - has made the final Sélections (shortlists) for the 2025 Prix Médicis, the 2025 Prix Femina, and the 2025 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. The complete shortlists for the Prix Médicis is here, for the Prix Femina here, and for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger here.

Das Pfarrhaus, translated by Eva Bonné and published by Luchterhand, will be out in June 2026.

Éclaircie, the French edition of Clear, published by La Table Ronde, is one of 15 foreign language novels in the Première Sélection for this year’s Prix Femina. See the full list here

Éclaircie, the French edition of Clear, published by La Table Ronde, is one of 14 foreign language novels in the Première Sélection for this year’s Prix Médicis. See the full list here

My first collection of short stories Some New Ambush, first published in 2007, is being re-issued with this beautiful new cover designed by Salt’s Chris Hamilton-Emery.

Clear is the winner of the 2025 Wales Book of the Year.

'An intricately crafted, passionate and remarkable novel. We loved this book, for its story, for its ambition, for its sentences, for its relevance to our world today.' —2025 Wales Book of the Year judges

Clear — Helder in Dutch, translated by Nicolette Hoekmeijer — is one of four novels shortlisted for the 2025 Europese Literatuurprijs. More here

Clear has won the 2025 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. More here

I'm delighted to be joining 13 other Fellows at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris from September 2025 to May 2026 to work on my new book. Find more information and a full list of Fellows here

Clear has been shortlisted for the 2025 Wales Book of the Year - more here