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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. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Swann's Way by Marcel Proust and Madame Bovary by ...
Jul 11, 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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct 3, 2023 · Lydia Davis is a sly miniaturist whose distinct blend of personal reflection, flash fiction, and poetic concision serve up little epiphanies in shot glass-sized portions.
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.
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