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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.
May 8, 2024 · Lydia Davis, American writer noted for her idiosyncratic and extremely short stories often characterized by vivid observations of mostly mundane and routine occurrences. In 2013 she won the Man Booker International Prize. Learn more about Davis’s life and work.
Oct 4, 2023 · Lydia Davis’s New Book Makes That Fascinating. In the author’s latest collection, “Our Strangers,” quotidian situations are stripped down to come alive. Share full article
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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.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Her new book, “Essays Two,” is organized around translation. As Davis points out in a preface, the book is more focused in its material than was her previous collection, “Essays One.”
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 writer...
Dec 8, 2023 · Her newest title, Our Strangers, contains 144 short stories in 300 pages. Davis spoke to Eleanor Wachtel in 2007 on stage at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in Montreal.
