Background
Dovey was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and grew up between South Africa and Australia.
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Blood Kin First Edition Signed By the Author
(A president has been overthrown by a military coup in a n...)
A president has been overthrown by a military coup in a nameless country in an unspecified era. The president's barber, chef, and portraitist are imprisoned, with many others, in a remote palace in the hills high above the city center. Before the coup, these three men worked with unquestioning loyalty, serving the president in seemingly benign jobs. Now, forced to serve the country's new leader, they begin to reconsider their role in the old regime. Fiction: Suspense, Political Thriller.
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Only the Animals: Stories
( An enthralling, daring collection of stories narrated b...)
An enthralling, daring collection of stories narrated by animals caught up in large-scale human wars and linked in personal or poetic ways to the great writers of their time. In a trench on the Western Front, a cat recalls her owner Colette’s theatrical antics in Paris. In Nazi Germany, a dog seeks enlightenment. A Russian tortoise once owned by the Tolstoys drifts in space during the Cold War. During the siege of Sarajevo, a starving bear tells a fairy tale. And a dolphin sent to Iraq by the U.S. Navy writes a letter to Sylvia Plath. Exquisitely written, playful, and poignant, Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals is a remarkable literary achievement by one of our brightest young writers. An animal’s-eye-view of humans at our brutal, violent worst and our creative, imaginative best, it asks us to find our way back to empathy not only for animals but for other people, and to believe again in the redemptive power of reading and writing fiction.
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Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey (2015-09-15)
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Blood Kin: A Novel
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Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin illustrates Lord Acton's famous quip, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and marks the beginning of an illustrious literary career.
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Blood Kin BLOOD KIN By Dovey, Ceridwen ( Author )Mar-01-2009 Paperback
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Ceridwen Dovey
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Education
Dovey attended high school in Australia at North Sydney Girls High School, before going to the United States in 1999 to study at Harvard University as an undergraduate where she completed a joint degree in Anthropology and Visual & Environmental Studies in 2003.
Career
Her parents derived her unusual name from one of the protagonists in Richard Llewellyn"s 1939 novel set in Wales, How Green Was My Valley. During her time at Harvard, Dovey made documentaries that highlighted the relationships between farmers and rural laborers in post-apartheid South Africa. She made a documentary about wine farm labor relations in the Western Cape of South Africa, Aftertaste, as part of her Honors thesis, which is distributed by John Marshall"s Documentary Educational Resources.
In 2004 Dovey worked briefly for the television programme National Organization for Women with Bill Moyers at Channel Thirteen in New York before returning to South Africa to study creative writing at the University of Cape Town.
She wrote her first novel Blood Kin as her thesis for an Master of Arts in creative writing under the supervision of poet Stephen Watson. She now lives in New York City.
Works
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Only the Animals: Stories
( An enthralling, daring collection of stories narrated b...)
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Blood Kin First Edition Signed By the Author
(A president has been overthrown by a military coup in a n...)
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Blood Kin: A Novel
( Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical...)
- Blood Kin
- Only the Animals: Stories by Ceridwen Dovey (2015-09-15)
- Blood Kin BLOOD KIN By Dovey, Ceridwen ( Author )Mar-01-2009 Paperback
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Only the Animals: Stories
Awards
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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; he John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; he John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.