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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.
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.
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.
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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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
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 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...
