Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
Author • Translator • Editorb. 15 Jul 1947- Books
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From Wikipedia: Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American author and translator of French. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis and Hope Hale Davis. From 1974 to 1978 Davis was married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a son, Daniel Auster. Davis is currently married to painter Alan Cote, with whom she has a son, Theo Cote. She is a professor of creative writing at University at Albany, SUNY.
She has published six collections of short stories, including The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976) and Break It Down (1986). Her most recent collection is Varieties of Disturbance, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. Her stories are acclaimed for their brevity and humour. Many are only one or two sentences. In fact some of her stories are considered poetry or somewhere between philosophy, poetry and short story.
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Lydia Davis is celebrated for her distinctive short stories, often very brief, which blur the lines between fiction, essay, and poetry. She is also a highly regarded translator of French literature.
Lydia Davis was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013 for her body of work. She also received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as a "genius grant."
A good starting point for new readers is "The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis," which gathers much of her acclaimed short fiction into one volume. This collection showcases the breadth and evolution of her unique style.