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Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories.
Lydia Davis has 358 books on Goodreads with 217999 ratings. Lydia Davis’s most popular book is The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
Lydia Davis, acclaimed fiction writer and translator, is famous in literary circles for her extremely brief and brilliantly inventive short stories. In fall 2003 she received one of 25 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” awards.
May 8, 2024 · Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American writer noted for her idiosyncratic and extremely short stories often characterized by vivid observations of mostly mundane and routine occurrences. Davis grew up surrounded by readers, writers, and teachers.
Oct 1, 2023 · Merve Emre talks with the writer and translator Lydia Davis about her painstaking attention to language, and how errors of communication can shape human relations.
Dec 3, 2021 · “Essays Two,” Lydia Davis’s new collection of 19 pieces on translation and the learning of languages, all written over the past two decades, offers overwhelming proof of the benefits to a...
Dec 8, 2023 · Called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction," Lydia Davis's work is difficult to describe. Some of her short stories read like poems, running for just a few pages and ...
Nov 30, 2021 · Lydia Davis learned German after being plopped into a classroom in Graz, Austria, at the age of 7. Her immersion began at home with breakfast: If she woke early, she received Schokolade mit...
Nov 12, 2019 · Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, most recently Can’t and Won’t. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award, and her Collected Stories was described by James Wood in The New Yorker as “a grand cumulative achievement.”.
Jun 26, 2014 · Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, has been publishing short stories utterly unlike anyone else’s for almost 40 years. Sometimes as brief as a sentence or...
