Murray Davies

{{Short description|Welsh author and journalist}}

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Murray Davies is a Welsh author and journalist.

He was born into a mining family in South Wales. He won a scholarship to UCW Aberystwyth where he studied international politics, followed by an MA in First World War poetry. He worked for the Daily Mail and Mirror Group as a reporter and feature writer. After twenty years as a journalist, he became a novelist. His novel, Collaborator, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/complete.html#pagebox|title=Sidewise Awards for Alternate History|publisher=Uchronia|accessdate=18 May 2011}} His other works include The Devils Handshake, Dogs on the Street, Samson Option and The Drumbeat Of Jimmy Sands.

Davies lives in Wiltshire.