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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 ...

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Lydia-DavisLydia Davis | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   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.

4. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-new-yorkerWhy Lydia Davis Loves Misunderstandings | The New Yorker

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   Oct 1, 2023 · The New Yorker Interview. Why Lydia Davis Loves Misunderstandings. The writer’s painstaking attention to the smallest units of language scales up to momentous questions about how errors of...

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5. www.nytimes.com › our-strangers-lydia-davisBook Review: ‘Our Strangers,’ by Lydia Davis - The New York Times

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   Oct 4, 2023 · OUR STRANGERS: Stories, by Lydia Davis. A Lydia Davis story, as we’ve come to know it over the course of five decades and seven collections, is a feat of omission. Often no longer than a...

6. www.goodreads.com › author › showLydia Davis (Author of The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis)

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   Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction. edit data. 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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   • Birth Date: July 15, 1947

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8. www.cbc.ca › radio › writersandcompanyA virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is ... - CBC.ca

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   Dec 8, 2023 · Listen to Lydia Davis's interview with Eleanor Wachtel on Writers and Company, a CBC Radio show. She talks about her childhood, her language skills, her literary influences and her award-winning work.

9. www.nytimes.com › essays-two-lydia-davisIn Lydia Davis’s Work, Writing and Translating Provocatively ...

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   Dec 3, 2021 · In Lydia Davis’s Work, Writing and Translating Provocatively Commingle. Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the...

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    Who is Lydia Davis?

    • "World's most concise short story writer Lydia Davis wins Booker International Prize 2013". Independent. Retrieved 2013-05-23. ^ "Lydia Davis is Lillian Vernon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence". New York University. Retrieved 2013-05-23. ^ Teicher, Craig Morgan (October 11, 2009). "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis". The Plain Dealer.

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    What is a Lydia Davis story?

    • A Lydia Davis story, as we’ve come to know it over the course of five decades and seven collections, is a feat of omission. Often no longer than a page, sometimes laid out like poetry, it captures some quotidian situation with nearly all the context stripped out so that, unbound by any definite place or time, it becomes charismatically strange.

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    What books are translated by Lydia Davis?

    • Lydia Davis; Christopher Prendergast (eds.). Swann's Way. Translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-243796-4. Vivant Denon (2009). Peter Brooks (ed.). No Tomorrow. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-59017-326-8. Gustave Flaubert (2010). Lydia Davis (ed.). Madame Bovary. Translated by Lydia Davis.

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