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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.
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. Davis grew up surrounded by readers, writers, and teachers.
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.
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...
Dec 8, 2023 · Called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction," Lydia Davis's work is difficult to describe. Some of her short stories read like poems, running for just a few pages and ...
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.
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
